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cuttingadjective causing intense discomfort to one's skina frigid day with a cutting wind that made it seem even colder biting, bitter, keen, penetrating, piercing, raw, sharp, shrewd, smarting, stinging brisk, invigorating, nippy, snappyneedlelike, prickly, tinglingcaustic, corrosive balmy, gentle, mild, soothing having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce somethingthe cutting side of the sword blade edged, edgy, ground, honed, keen, sharp, sharpened, stropped, trenchant, whetted clawlike, daggerlike, knifelikejabbing, jagged, lacerating, piercing, scratching, stabbingpointed, pointy, spiky(also spikey) blunt, blunted, dull, dulled, obtuse rounded, smoothsofteven, flat, level, slick marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelingsher cutting comments serve only one purpose: to make someone cry acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulous, acrid, barbed, biting, caustic, corrosive, mordant, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric(or satirical), scalding, scathing, sharp, smart-aleck, smart-alecky, smart-mouthed, snarky, tart brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky(also spikey), tartishincisive, keen, poignant, trenchantcynical, dry, ironic(also ironical), wryfacetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheekacrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolicharsh, rough, severe, stringentabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, tersebackhanded, insincere amusing, droll, merry, playful, sportive, waggishgentle, mildblandgood-humored, good-natureddiplomatic, polite, smooth, suave, urbaneaffable, cordial, genial, gracious, hospitable, sociable cuttingnouna piece that has been separated from the whole by cuttinga bag full of grass cuttings cut, slice chop, cutletlength, part, portion, section, segmentchunk, hunk, lumpclipping, paring, shaving, sliver, snippet, splinter cuttingverbpresent participle of cutto penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass gashing, incising, ripping, shearing, slashing, slicing, slitting crosscutting, hacksawing, sawing, scissoringcleaving, riving, splittingpiercing, stabbingbruising, butchering, hacking, haggling, lacerating, manglingrending, tearingcarving, chipping, chiseling(or chiselling), notchinganatomizing, dissecting, sectioningchopping, dicing, mincingamputating, cutting off, severing to fail to attenda warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses blowing off, missing, skipping ignoring, neglecting, passing over absenting oneself, playing hooky attending, showing up (for) to deliberately ignore or treat rudelythe snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing cold-shouldering, high-hatting, slighting, snubbing, stiff-arming, stiffing isolating, ostracizingbrushing (aside or off), disdaining, rebuffing, rejecting, repelling, repulsing, scorning, spurningdisregarding, forgetting, neglecting, overlooking, overpassing, passing over, shrugging off to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentwhen you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting back, docking, lopping (off), nipping, paring, polling, pruning, shaving, shearing, snipping, trimming skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening to shorten the standing leafy plant cover ofyou need to cut the lawn very soon—before it becomes a jungle mowing clipping, cropping, curtailing, cutting back, docking, hacking, lopping, manicuring, nipping, paring, pruning, trimmingbobbing, shaving, shearing, snipping to alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substancesthe fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink adulterating, diluting, extending, lacing, sophisticating, thinning, watering down, weakening loadingbefouling, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, dirtying, envenoming, fouling, infecting, poisoning, polluting, soiling, spoiling, sullying, taintingcheapening, debasing, degradingmanipulating, misrepresenting, tampering (with)counterfeiting, faking, falsifying, fudgingdoctoring, spikingattenuating, moderating, qualifying, tempering enriching, fortifying, richening, strengthening fertilizing, lardingaugmenting, reinforcing(also reenforcing), supplementingdecontaminating, purifyingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, distilling, filtering, flushing, leaching, pasteurizing, purging, refiningbettering, enhancing, improvingcompacting, concentrating, condensing to depart abruptly from a straight line or coursecut towards the goal, eluding a defender breaking, sheering, swerving, veering, yawing, zagging, zigging skewing, slewing(also sluing)arching, arcing, bending, bowing, crooking, curving, hooking, rounding, sweeping, wheelingabout-facing, pivotingcircling, coiling, curling, looping, spiraling(or spiralling)turning, twisting, windingweaving, zigzaggingdeviating, straying, wandering, wavering straightening to divide by passing through or acrossa long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half to identify and examine the basic elements or parts of (something) especially for discovering interrelationshipswhichever way you cut it, we won't be seeing any profits from the business for at least three years analyzing, anatomizing, assaying, breaking down, deconstructing, dissecting assessing, diagnosing, evaluating, examining, inspecting, investigating, scrutinizingarranging, assorting, cataloging(or cataloguing), categorizing, classifying, codifying, diagramming(or diagraming), enumerating, indexing, ordering, schematizing, sorting, tabulatingdividing, reducing, segmenting, separating, subdividing agglomerating, aggregating, amalgamating, assimilating, coalescing, conglomerating, consolidating, integrating, synthesizing, unifying in the 14th century |