cutting

Speech parts

1. cutting - Noun

2. cutting - Adjective

3. cutting - Verb

Derived from cut

5. cutting - Adjective Satellite

6. Cutting - Proper noun

Meaning

of Cut

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

carving piercing cut slip severe sharp harsh keen biting bleak stabbing caustic edged scathing stinging
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Antonyms

flaming kind hot reaching calling heated
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Hypernyms

division opening piece selection stem extract

Hyponyms

nick gash section slip trim clip

Phrases with the word

cutting edge cutting down cutting back cutting it close cutting corners cutting loose

Examples

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. Hilaire Belloc

If you are going to go where corn grows, take a cutting tool with you. Ethiopian Proverb

A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail. Hindi Proverb

You don't kill a gypsy by cutting him in ten pieces -- you only make ten more gypsies. Gypsy Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cutthroat cutthroat eel cuttie cutting a rug cutting across cutting agent