"clear cut" meaning in English

See clear cut in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: en-au-clear cut.ogg [Australia] Forms: more clear cut [comparative], most clear cut [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} clear cut (comparative more clear cut, superlative most clear cut)
  1. (idiomatic) Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic. Tags: idiomatic Translations (straightforward): определен (opredelen) (Bulgarian), ясно очертан (jasno očertan) (Bulgarian), evident (Catalan), clar (Catalan), 明確 (Chinese Mandarin), 明确 (míngquè) (Chinese Mandarin), 清晰 (qīngxī) (Chinese Mandarin), jasný (Czech), duidelijk (Dutch), selvä (Finnish), selkeä (Finnish), selväpiirteinen (Finnish), clair (French), direct (French), évident (French), evidente (Galician), ersichtlich (German), sichtlich (German), deutlich (German), lampante (Italian), palese (Italian), evidente (Italian), chiaro (Italian), argūtus (Latin), explicātus (Latin), jasny (Polish), claro (Portuguese), evidente (Portuguese), claro (Spanish), evidente (Spanish), tydlig (Swedish), açık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-clear_cut-en-adj-eUBO3GnE Disambiguation of 'straightforward': 99 1
  2. (forestry) Having had all trees cut. Categories (topical): Forestry Synonyms: cut and dried, open-and-shut, res ipsa loquitur, clear-cut, clearcut Translations (trees removed): paljaaksihakattu (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-clear_cut-en-adj-DSYZDU5Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 72 19 Topics: business, forestry Disambiguation of 'trees removed': 21 79

Verb

Audio: en-au-clear cut.ogg [Australia] Forms: clear cuts [present, singular, third-person], clear cutting [participle, present], clear cut [participle, past], clear cut [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|clear cut<,,cut>}} clear cut (third-person singular simple present clear cuts, present participle clear cutting, simple past and past participle clear cut)
  1. To remove all trees or vegetation from an area.
    Sense id: en-clear_cut-en-verb-rLRXl8d3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for clear cut meaning in English (6.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clear cut (comparative more clear cut, superlative most clear cut)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It looks like a simple enough problem, but the answer might not be as clear cut as you suppose.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic."
      ],
      "id": "en-clear_cut-en-adj-eUBO3GnE",
      "links": [
        [
          "Straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious"
        ],
        [
          "simple",
          "simple"
        ],
        [
          "basic",
          "basic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "opredelen",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "определен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "jasno očertan",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "ясно очертан"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "evident"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "clar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "明確"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "míngquè",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "明确"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qīngxī",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "清晰"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "jasný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "duidelijk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "selvä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "selkeä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "selväpiirteinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "clair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "direct"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "évident"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "ersichtlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "sichtlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "deutlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "lampante"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "palese"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "chiaro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "argūtus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "explicātus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "jasny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "claro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "claro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "evidente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "tydlig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "straightforward",
          "word": "açık"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Forestry",
          "orig": "en:Forestry",
          "parents": [
            "Applied sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 72 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having had all trees cut."
      ],
      "id": "en-clear_cut-en-adj-DSYZDU5Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "forestry",
          "forestry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(forestry) Having had all trees cut."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "cut and dried"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "open-and-shut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "res ipsa loquitur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "clear-cut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100 0",
          "word": "clearcut"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "forestry"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "21 79",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "trees removed",
          "word": "paljaaksihakattu"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-clear cut.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg/En-au-clear_cut.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clear cut"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clear cuts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cutting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clear cut<,,cut>"
      },
      "expansion": "clear cut (third-person singular simple present clear cuts, present participle clear cutting, simple past and past participle clear cut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To remove all trees or vegetation from an area."
      ],
      "id": "en-clear_cut-en-verb-rLRXl8d3",
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "trees",
          "trees"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-clear cut.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg/En-au-clear_cut.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "clear cut"
  ],
  "word": "clear cut"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Requests for review of Russian translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "clear cut (comparative more clear cut, superlative most clear cut)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It looks like a simple enough problem, but the answer might not be as clear cut as you suppose.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious"
        ],
        [
          "simple",
          "simple"
        ],
        [
          "basic",
          "basic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Forestry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having had all trees cut."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forestry",
          "forestry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(forestry) Having had all trees cut."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "forestry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-clear cut.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg/En-au-clear_cut.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cut and dried"
    },
    {
      "word": "open-and-shut"
    },
    {
      "word": "res ipsa loquitur"
    },
    {
      "word": "clear-cut"
    },
    {
      "word": "clearcut"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "opredelen",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "определен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "jasno očertan",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "ясно очертан"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "evident"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "clar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "明確"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "míngquè",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "明确"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngxī",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "清晰"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "jasný"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "duidelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "selvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "selkeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "selväpiirteinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "selvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "clair"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "direct"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "évident"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "ersichtlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "sichtlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "deutlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "lampante"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "palese"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "chiaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "argūtus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "explicātus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "jasny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "claro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "claro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "evidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "tydlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "straightforward",
      "word": "açık"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "trees removed",
      "word": "paljaaksihakattu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clear cut"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Requests for review of Russian translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clear cuts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cutting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clear cut",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clear cut<,,cut>"
      },
      "expansion": "clear cut (third-person singular simple present clear cuts, present participle clear cutting, simple past and past participle clear cut)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To remove all trees or vegetation from an area."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remove",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "trees",
          "trees"
        ],
        [
          "vegetation",
          "vegetation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-clear cut.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg/En-au-clear_cut.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-clear_cut.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "clear-cut"
    },
    {
      "word": "clearcut"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "clear cut"
  ],
  "word": "clear cut"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.