What is another word for jutting?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˈʌtɪŋ] (IPA)

Jutting refers to something that sticks out or protrudes in a noticeable way. It can be used to describe an object, a body part, or a feature of a landscape. Synonyms for jutting include projecting, extending, bulging, protruding, thrusting, and sticking out. Other words that convey a similar idea are overhanging, looming, jutting out, obtruding, and standing out. Some antonyms of jutting are receding, retreating, withdrawing, and sinking. Jutting is often used to describe abrupt or striking features, such as a jutting cliff or a jutting chin. It can also be used to convey a sense of aggressiveness or defiance, as in a jutting jaw or a jutting finger.

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What are the hypernyms for Jutting?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Jutting?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for jutting?

Jutting is a term used to describe something that projects outwards or protrudes. Its antonym, therefore, would describe something that is recessed or indented. A suitable antonym for jutting could be "inset," "recessed," or "sunken." All of these terms denote an inward trajectory and are used to describe objects or features that are carved or set back. Another antonym for jutting could be "concave" or "hollow," both of which indicate a sunken or scooped-out appearance. Alternatively, "flat," "smooth," or "level" could also serve as antonyms, as these terms describe surfaces that do not project or protrude.

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Usage examples for Jutting

Across the wide waters to the east Pozzuoli loomed, transparent, jutting into the sea.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Clumps of bushes were still burning at the roots, but he avoided them and kept on to the far side hill, where a barren, yellow patch, with jutting sandstone rocks, offered a resting place.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Down in the hollow, which Kent reached with a sigh of relief, he dismounted and hastily started a little fire on a barren patch of ground beneath a jutting sandstone ledge.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower

Famous quotes with Jutting

  • Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
    Knute Nelson
  • Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
    Victor Hugo
  • Already handbills were in circulation; some presenting, in large print, the alternative of justice on the conspirators or ruin to the Republic; others in equally large print urging the observance of the law and the granting of the Appeal. Round these jutting islets of black capitals there were lakes of smaller characters setting forth arguments less necessary to be read: for it was an opinion entertained at that time (in the first flush of triumph at the discovery of printing), that there was no argument more widely convincing than question-begging phrases in large type.
    George Eliot
  • And o'er them lowers destruction, high in air, Upon those jutting crags, whose rugged sides, Riven in fragments, and like ruins pil'd, Seem as that giants of those ancient days When earthborn creatures braved th' Olympic Gods, Those of whom fable tells, had torn away Rocks from their solid base, and with strong arm, Parted the mountains: there the avalanche hangs, Mighty, but tremulous; just a light breath Will loosen it from off its airy throne; Then down it hurls in wrath, like to the sound Of thunder amid storms, or as the voice Of rushing waters—death in its career.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blonde Satan.
    Dashiell Hammett

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