clear cut

See also: clearcut and clear-cut

English

Alternative forms

• clear-cut
• clearcut

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

clear cut (comparative more clear cut or clearer cut, superlative most clear cut or clearest cut)

1. (idiomatic) Straightforward, obvious, simple, or basic.

   It looks like a simple enough problem, but the answer might not be as clear cut as you suppose.

2. (forestry) Having had all trees cut.

Synonyms

(clear, obvious):

• cut and dried
• open-and-shut
• res ipsa loquitur

Translations

straightforward

• Bulgarian: определен (bg) (opredelen), ясно очертан (jasno očertan)
• Catalan: evident (ca), clar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明確／明确 (zh) (míngquè), 清晰 (zh) (qīngxī)

• Czech: jasný (cs)
• Dutch: duidelijk (nl)
• Finnish: selvä (fi), selkeä (fi), selväpiirteinen, selvä (fi)
• French: clair (fr), direct (fr), évident (fr)
• Galician: evidente
• German: ersichtlich (de), sichtlich (de), deutlich (de)
• Italian: lampante (it), palese (it), evidente (it), chiaro (it)
• Latin: argūtus, explicātus
• Polish: jasny (pl)
• Portuguese: claro (pt), evidente (pt)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} чёткий (ru) (čótkij), ^{(please verify)} отчётливый (ru) (otčótlivyj), ^{(please verify)} я́сно оче́рченный (jásno očérčennyj)
• Spanish: claro (es), evidente (es)
• Swedish: tydlig (sv)
• Turkish: açık (tr)

trees removed

• Finnish: paljaaksihakattu

Verb

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.

Further reading

• “clear-cut”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• clear cut, clearcut at Google Ngram Viewer