— cuttingly , adv. — cuttingness , n.
/kut"ing/ , n.
1. the act of a person or thing that cuts.
2. something cut, cut off, or cut out.
3. Hort. a piece, as a root, stem, or leaf, cut from a plant and used for propagation.
4. something made by cutting, as a recording.
5. Chiefly Brit. a clipping from a newspaper, magazine, etc.
6. Brit. a trenchlike excavation, esp. through a hill, as one made in constructing a highway.
adj.
7. that cuts; penetrating or dividing by, or as if by, a cut.
8. piercing, as a wind.
9. wounding the feelings severely; sarcastic.
[ 1350-1400; ME; see CUT, -ING 1 , -ING 2 ]
Syn. 9. caustic, biting, mordant, acid, sardonic.