Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the apex cut off and replaced by a plane, especially one parallel to the base. Used of a cone or pyramid.
- adj. Lacking one or more syllables, especially in the final foot; catalectic.
- adj. Lacking an initial or final syllable. Used of a line of verse.
- adj. Truncate.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of truncate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Cut off; cut short; maimed.
- adj. (Min.) Replaced, or cut off, by a plane, especially when equally inclined to the adjoining faces.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Lacking the apex; -- said of certain spiral shells in which the apex naturally drops off.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. cut short in duration
- adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off
Examples
“On ABC's "This Week," where he is a regular contributor, Krugman makes the same arguments, albeit in truncated form.”
The Washington Post: Paul Krugman, incensed and insistent about our economic ills
“He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn't give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable.”
The Washington Post: Gyptian at the Crossroads: Coming up short until 'Hold Yuh'
“So now, whenever I post something at LiveJournal, that latest post will be displayed (in truncated form) on my private site.”
“It is likely the structural changes would prevent fins from correctly forming, resulting instead in short, truncated fins, the authors suggest.”
“He took the stage shortly after 1 a.m. and lingered for a meager 25 minutes, delivering his lovelorn songs in truncated forms that didn’t give the singer or his smitten fans much of a opportunity to get comfortable.”
“He also knew a great deal about history, which he used in his "Time Patrol" stories—the one here has a title casually truncated from Cato, "Delenda Est" the missing Latin word is "Carthago".”
“The politicos come down for what we've come to call a truncated "stations of the cross": a levee-break, a school, and the Lower Ninth Ward.”
Stacy Parker Aab: If We Can Pursue Truth in Baseball, How about Truth Post-Katrina?
“After writing yesterday about the Democrats' predictable paranoia setting in over those infernal electronic voting machines that have already been programmed to bring wins to Republicans across the country, and of the right-wing conspiracy to have Jim Webb's name truncated on certain voting machines in heavily Democratic cities here in Virginia, I receive the following email:”
“The echo of distant songs, the din of the market, and the cadence of the language itself—Creole—each word truncated to fit the meter of West African speech.”
“Built invariably solely of stone and without mortar, in form the brochs were circular, and have been described as truncated cones with the apex cut off, [7] and their general plan and elevation were everywhere almost uniform.”
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘truncated’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 288 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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simple & useful2
nitwit, roguish, racketeering, mannerisms, aerialist, mangling, ineradicable, rickety, blatantly, libidinal, bungalow, axiomatic and 96 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 996 more...
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List 1
the list of vocabularies from 1100 words you need to know Barron's.
conceded, eminent, prognosticate, indiscriminate, voracious, replete, abound, badger, drudgery, interminable, perceive, tinge and 248 more...
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The Decemberists
The Decemberists tend to use a lot of interesting words in their songs.
parapet, wastrel, mescaline, indolent, balustrade, vagabond, sprightly, grapple, gunwale, odalisque, timberline, moribund and 116 more...
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GENERAL
acquiesce, adjunct, affable, alacrity, amiable, anodyne, anachronism, apex, aphorism, arbitrary, arch, archetype and 182 more...
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indiekitten's Words
comely, resistentialism, truncated, lugubrious, bleary, tine, ramification, ruminate, athleticism, abstemious, clavicle, bookkeeper and 6 more...
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acphenderson's list
a fantastic hodgepodge of discovered gems.
bedizen, incendiary, cacaphony, tactiturn, disingenious, serrated, truncated, bete noire, irrefutable, mirable dictu, peripatetic, salty
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Politics
meritocratic, blowback, entitlement, medicaid, Medicare, malpractice, outgrowth, allegation, mull, facility, advanced, gadfly and 18 more...
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