English Explanatory Dictionary

cut up

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To cut upward.
To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
To distress mentally or emotionally.
To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
To divide into portions well or badly; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc.
Comprise a particular selection of runners.

adj

Having been cut into smaller pieces.
Wounded with multiple lacerations.
Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
Muscular and lean.

Pronunciation

EN-AU ck1 cut up.ogg En-au-cut up.ogg

Word forms

cut up cuts up cutting up more cut up most cut up

Synonyms

cut off miserable unhappy atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp dejected depressed despondent disgruntled disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull elegiac elegious forlorn gloomy glum grief-stricken grieving heavy-hearted heartsore heartsick inconsolable infelicitous jawfallen joyless lachrymose lamentful low low-spirited lugubrious lumpish melancholic melancholy moody mopey morose mournful passionate plaintive Plutonian

Derived words

cutup cut-up cut up nasty cut up rough cut up shines

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