clear-cut

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: New approaches to participation in planning and service development have had the impact of making this relationship less clear-cut.

Preposition: as

author: Unfortunately, the reviewer believes that she is overstating her case and that the evidence is not as clear-cut as the author suggests.

Modifies a noun

• distinction: They reduce the ambiguities of reality to clear-cut distinctions.
• chance: Despite applying much pressure in the second half, the home side failed to create a single clear-cut chance.
• conclusion: In the last sentence of the abstract, a clear-cut conclusion should be presented.
• victory: The result was not a clear-cut victory for either side.
• answer: At the end of the day there are no clear-cut answers.
• boundary: These categories have neither clear-cut boundaries nor is the degree of membership equal.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: The issues at the top of the table look fairly clear-cut.
• so: In the Abraham and Jacob cycles the picture is not so clear-cut.
• always: Determining what constitutes a syntax error is not always clear-cut.
• very: The map shows a very clear-cut south westerly route.
• not: Medicine is not clear-cut; there are many gray areas.
• quite: In some cases a single gene mutation has quite clear-cut consequences.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Risk transfer, on the face of it, seems clear-cut.
• become: Note that the set of patients and their symptoms has not changed -- the world has not become more clear-cut in any way.
• mean: The answer, he concludes is by no means clear-cut.
• look: The issues at the top of the table look fairly clear-cut.
• make: If an offer ideas make as as clear-cut as happened in the.
• have: The beams in this area have clear-cut Roman numerals indicating that the timber was cut off site and then re-assembled by local carpenters.