n. 25B6; verb
his hair had been washed and trimmed : CUT, barber, crop, bob, shorten, clip, snip, shear; neaten, shape, tidy up.
trim off the lower leaves using a sharp knife : CUT OFF, remove, take off, chop off, lop off; prune, pollard.
production costs need to be trimmed : REDUCE, decrease, cut down, cut back on, scale down, prune, slim down, pare down, dock.
the story was severely trimmed for the film version : SHORTEN, abridge, condense, abbreviate, telescope, truncate.
a pair of black leather gloves trimmed with fake fur : DECORATE, adorn, ornament, embellish; edge, pipe, border, hem, fringe.
25B6; noun
white curtains with a blue trim : DECORATION, trimming, ornamentation, adornment, embellishment; border, edging, piping, rickrack, hem, fringe, frill; archaic purfle.
an unruly mop in desperate need of a trim : HAIRCUT, cut, barbering, clip, snip; pruning; tidy-up.
25B6; adjective
a cropped, fitted jacket looks trim with a long-line skirt : SMART, stylish, chic, spruce, dapper, elegant, crisp; N. Amer. trig; informal natty, sharp; N. Amer. informal spiffy.
a trim little villa : NEAT, tidy, neat and tidy, as neat as a new pin, orderly, in (good) order, uncluttered, well kept, well maintained, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), in apple-pie order, immaculate, spick and span.
her trim figure : SLIM, slender, lean, clean-limbed, sleek, willowy, lissom, sylphlike, svelte; streamlined.
untidy, messy.
25A0; in trim FIT, fighting fit, as fit as a fiddle, in good health, in fine fettle; slim, in shape.