cookie-cutter
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6.5
- adjective
- /ˈkʊkiˌkʌtər/
- Informal
- We did not make cookie-cutter art.
- cookie-cutter approach
Examples
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Every city that I've lived in all had that cookie-cutter feel.
Blog text (2) -
However, what follows is not the story of a cookie-cutter recipe for starting a makerspace; there is no such recipe.
Academic text (2014) -
Successful strategies are as varied as the communities themselves; no single cookie-cutter approach works in all situations.
Academic text (2009) -
Their letters are often cookie-cutter, and a few are absurdly short.
Blog text (23) -
Too often, however, they are about recreating one teacher's style, a cookie-cutter model of developing a leader.
Blog text (25) -
The whole point of his article is custom blogs, not cookie-cutter designs.
Blog text (27) -
There were no cookie-cutter subdivisions, no planned developments with architect-designed wraparound porches.
Fiction book (1998) -
Many people are tired of the cookie-cutter design of modern office buildings that lack creativity.
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Critics argue that a cookie-cutter educational system fails to meet the unique needs of students.
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The artist refused to create a cookie-cutter version of her work, opting instead for something truly unique.
Synonyms
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4.4
Shows a simple, fixed idea about a group of people
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3.4
Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before
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4.7
Simple and clear because it follows fixed rules
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4.4
Showing the same simple ideas again and again
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4.8
Made in a simple, predictable way so many things look the same
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7.0
Having no original ideas and following a simple idea about a group of people
Antonyms
How Unoriginal
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7.2
- Informal
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6.5
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cookie-cutter comes from the kitchen tool: a cookie is a small sweet and a cutter makes many shapes that are exactly the same. So if something is cookie-cutter, it is 'all the same' and 'lacks originality'.