cookie-cutter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.
Derogatory
noun
Example Sentences
- "The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses."
- "I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases."
- "Nothing that the uniformity-haters can say is beyond the mark; there is an appalling degree of sameness, of cookie-cutter character and outlook, stamped out with neatness, regularity, and despatch."
- "Our attempt to apply a cookie-cutter to it has landed us in our present morass, and we are floundering aimlessly in this morass because we refuse to admit the obvious fact that our cookie-cutter point of view is all awry"
- "Whether we call it a culture or a subculture, it is always important to avoid the cookie-cutter view of culture, with regard to the individual and to the culture or subculture involved. With regard to the individual, the cookie-cutter view assumes that all individuals in a culture turn out exactly alike, as if they were so many cookies."
- "All clergy need to know the basics of Bible, theology, Christian education, and church history. Their training is therefore more cookie-cutter than individualized."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more cookie-cutter (comparative)
most cookie-cutter (superlative)
cookie-cutters (plural)
cookie-cutters (present, singular)
cookie-cuttering (participle, present)
cookie-cuttered (participle, past)
cookie-cuttered (past)