Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Cut sharply and clearly; cut so as to present a clear, well-defined outline, as a figure on a medal or an engraving; hence, presenting great distinctness; well-defined; clear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well-defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.

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Examples

  • Writing now, thirty years afterward, every vision is as distinct, as sharp-cut, every pain as vital and terrible, as on that night.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • In a few minutes the far bank, a mile away, unobtrusively came into view, and ahead and behind, the whole frozen river could be seen, with off to the left a wide-extending range of sharp-cut, snow-covered mountains.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • Below, the sharp-cut stones, steep stairs, people in clusters.

    The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011

  • The choreography, like the music, is sharp-cut and angular, but Lamb avoids the brittleness to which she's occasionally prone.

    Jewels; The Metamorphosis – review 2011

  • As he brought his fingers closer to its sharp-cut facets, the floor beneath his feet seemed to vibrate softly, although he wondered if that was just his nerves betraying him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • Very soft-looking slipper-socks, the same color as the robe, and with sharp-cut, floppy points front and back, came up to about mid-calf.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • As he brought his fingers closer to its sharp-cut facets, the floor beneath his feet seemed to vibrate softly, although he wondered if that was just his nerves betraying him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • While the light threw the sharp-cut features of the laird and his brother into a high relief, it merely made Arthur Duncan look fat and ill.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • As he brought his fingers closer to its sharp-cut facets, the floor beneath his feet seemed to vibrate softly, although he wondered if that was just his nerves betraying him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

  • As he brought his fingers closer to its sharp-cut facets, the floor beneath his feet seemed to vibrate softly, although he wondered if that was just his nerves betraying him.

    Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010

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