clear-cut Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb remove all the trees at one time
    • clear-cut an acre of forest
  2. adjective satellite clearly or sharply defined to the mind
    distinct; trenchant.
    • clear-cut evidence of tampering
    • Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest
    • trenchant distinctions between right and wrong
  3. adjective satellite having had all the trees removed at one time
    • clear-cut hillsides are subject to erosion
  4. adjective satellite clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
    clear; clean-cut.
    • as clear as a whistle
    • clear footprints in the snow
    • the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather
    • a spire clean-cut against the sky
    • a clear-cut pattern

WordNet

Clear"-cut` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
    She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.
  2. Concisely and distinctly expressed.

Webster 1913