Definitions for clear-cut

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clear-cut clear-cut

Spelling: [kleer-kuht for 1, 2; kleer-kuht

IPA: /ˈklɪərˈkʌt for 1, 2; ˈklɪərˌkʌt for 3–5/

Clear-Cut is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in clear-cut (-accelrtu).

Definitions for clear-cut

noun

1. a section of forest where all trees have been cut down for harvesting.

adjective

1. formed with or having clearly defined outlines:
2. unambiguously clear; completely evident; definite:
3. of or relating to a section of forest where all trees have been cut down for harvesting.

verb (used with object)

1. to fell all the trees in (a section of forest) for harvesting.

Origin of clear-cut

First recorded in 1850-55

Examples for clear-cut

He flung back his head, and there was defiance in every line of his clear-cut face.

But for those with complicated financial situations, or even complicated family dynamics, things are not so clear-cut.

Whatever happens, a clear-cut winner in Syria might well try to rally the divided country by confronting the Zionist enemy.

His clear-cut features, always handsome, were grand in sleep.

This 2-0 was a clear-cut win, a sharp slice through a loaf, no ambiguity, no crumbs.

The polls say more people will blame the Republicans, but they aren't as clear-cut as they ought to be.

He hesitated, but when his words came they were clear-cut and stern.

These were not clear-cut problems of the kind he had been dealing with all his life.

Today, in the name of progress, we have faceless interstate highways, clear-cut logging, and industrial farming.

His English was not thick, but all clear-cut, as though it came from a phonograph.