✂️ Cut neatly 🗣️ Short and sharp

clipped

3.7

Cut neatly to make a tidy shape, like a hedge or beard

adjective
/klɪpt/

: recortado

The gardener kept the hedges neatly clipped to maintain their shape.

Examples

She wore her hair in a clipped style that highlighted her features.
After the haircut, he ran his fingers through his clipped hair, feeling much lighter.
It's always going to be clipped in and secure.
OK, so it must be just clipped together.
That does feel smooth, but it's not clipped down into place yet.
So I need to build a thing that holds the bottom of this stick where my hand is, and it's clipped on the bottom of this part.
I noticed some people kind of like tucked this part in, clipped it like that.
You can climb in and unlock the joints, and then walk along with your feet clipped in with snowboard bindings.

Synonyms

cut

vsclipped

1 1.0

Neat and short after being trimmed with scissors or a machine

is focused on tidy, precise finishing rather than general shortening

trimmed

vsclipped

1.0

Cut to look neat by removing extra or uneven parts

is about making neat shapes with small precise snips

sheared

vsclipped

3.7

Cut close to the skin from hair, wool, or fur, often with clippers

is done with careful, small snips for a neat precise look

truncated

vsclipped

6.3

Shortened because a part is cut away or time is limited

focuses on tidy small cuts, not broad removal of an end

Antonyms

unclipped

4.9

Not cut or trimmed and left as it is

How Short

shorn

3 6.6

clipped

3.7

trimmed

1.0

uncut

6 3.9

Surface Forms

clipped positive

Morphology

clipped = clip (transparent) = clip + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'clip'; meaning 'cut or trimmed' is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

Clipped comes from the verb clip, which means 'to cut' or 'trim', like when you use a hair or nail clipper to make something neat. So a clipped hedge or beard is one that has been carefully cut into a tidy shape.