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bullet-point

bullet-point is the alternative form of bullet point.

Meaning of bullet point

Noun

bullet point (plural bullet points)

  1. The symbol, typically a solid circle, that marks each item in a bulleted list.
    • Bullet points don't have to be just round dots—you can use any small symbol to start off your line. Hyphens are popular, as are check marks and arrows.1996, Marcia Layton, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Terrific Business Writing, page 110
  2. An item in a bulleted list.
    • Bullet points should be short phrases that are parallel.2007, Mary Ellen Guffey, Patricia Rogin, Kathleen Rhodes, Business Communication: Process and Product, page 374
    Synonyms:
    bullet, dot point
  3. (usually) A succinct statement of the kind that might appear in a bulleted list.
    • Panic is immune to debate, to analysis, to earnest and cognitively therapeutic bullet points.2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 29

Verb

bullet-point (third-person singular simple present bullet-points, present participle bullet-pointing, simple past and past participle bullet-pointed)

  1. (transitive) To describe in a set of bullet points.
    • Concept mapping, mind mapping and cognitive mapping are useful means of breaking with the linearity of scribing what has been said or ‘bullet-pointing’ a discussion.2000, Ann Taket, Leroy White, Partnership and Participation: Decision-making in the Multiagency Setting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, page 131
    • EA and Origin publicly unveiled UO2 in September 1999, bullet-pointing a sexy 3D engine, a fantasy-meets-steampunk setting, a reduced PVP focus, and dorktastic creature designs by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.2008 February, Ryan Scott, “Ultimate Online 2”, in Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, number 15, page 35

Forms of bullet-point

Noun
pluralbullet-points
Verb
third-person singular presentbullet-points
present participlebullet-pointing
past participlebullet-pointed
pastbullet-pointed

Questions about bullet-point

What does bullet-point mean?
Bullet-point means to describe in a set of bullet points.
What is bullet-point the alternative form of?
Bullet-point is the alternative form of bullet point.
What part of speech is bullet-point?
Bullet-point is a verb.
What is the past tense of bullet-point?
The past tense of bullet-point is bullet-pointed.

Words near bullet-point in the dictionary

  1. bullet woods
  2. bullet-head
  3. bullet-headed
  4. bullet-heads
  5. bullet-nose
  6. bullet-point
  7. bullet-pointed
  8. bullet-pointing
  9. bullet-points
  10. bullet-proof
  11. bullet-proofed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bullet-point (page history and authors); bullet point (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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