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cutting
Synonyms and Antonyms of cutting
- a frigid day with a cutting wind that made it seem even colder
- the cutting side of the sword blade
- her cutting comments serve only one purpose: to make someone cry
brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartish
incisive, keen, poignant, trenchant
cynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wry
facetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheek
acrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolic
harsh, rough, severe, stringent
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, terse
cutting
Synonyms and Antonyms of cutting
Synonyms and Antonyms of cutting
- I cut my hand on a piece of broken glass
- a warning that she had been cutting too many classes without valid excuses
- the snobbish lady cut anyone who didn't meet her standards of wealth and social standing
- when you cut the pad, make it a little smaller than the carpet
- you need to cut the lawn very soon—before it becomes a jungle
- the fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink
- cut towards the goal, eluding a defender
- a long mountain range virtually cuts that country in half
- whichever way you cut it, we won't be seeing any profits from the business for at least three years
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