Antonyms of verb clip

1 of 5 senses of clip

Sense 3
clip -- (attach with a clip; "clip the papers together")
       Antonym of unclip (Sense 1)
      => unclip -- (remove the clip from)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb clip

5 senses of clip

Sense 1
nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off -- (sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers")
       => cut -- (separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope")

Sense 2
trot, jog, clip -- (run at a moderately swift pace)
       => run -- (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store")

Sense 3
clip -- (attach with a clip; "clip the papers together")
       => attach -- (cause to be attached)

Sense 4
snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back -- (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden")
       => thin out -- (make sparse; "thin out the young plants")

Sense 5
clip, curtail, cut short -- (terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries")
       => shorten -- (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness")

Antonyms of adj clipped

2 senses of clipped

Sense 1
clipped -- (cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle")

INDIRECT (VIA trimmed) -> untrimmed, uncut -- (not trimmed; "shaggy untrimmed locks")

Sense 2
clipped -- ((of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent")

INDIRECT (VIA short) -> long -- (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long")

Similarity of adj clipped

2 senses of clipped

Sense 1
clipped -- (cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle")
       => trimmed (vs. untrimmed), cut -- (made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair")

Sense 2
clipped -- ((of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent")
       => short (vs. long) -- (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months")

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