clear cut

Easy to understand or decide, with no doubt about what is true or right.

• There is no clear-cut answer.
• The evidence made this a clear-cut case.
• The difference between the two groups was clear-cut.

Similar words: clear, unambiguous, straightforward

Opposites: unclear, ambiguous

Common phrases: clear cut answer, clear cut distinction, clear cut case

Having had all the trees in an area cut down.

• The clear-cut hillside had no shade.
• Rain washed soil from the clear-cut land.
• They planted new trees in the clear-cut forest.

Similar words: deforested

Common phrases: clear cut forest, clear cut land, clear cut hillside

To cut down all the trees or plants in an area.

• They clear-cut the hillside last year.
• The company has clear-cut hundreds of acres.
• Will they clear-cut the whole forest?

How to use it: clear cut something (The company plans to clear-cut this forest.)

Similar words: clear, deforest

Common phrases: clear cut something, clear cut forests, clear cut land