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lipped

/lɪpt/

lipped adjective: having a raised lip. Also the simple past and past participle of lip.

Adjective

lipped (not comparable)

  1. Having a raised lip.
    • lipped pitcher
    Antonyms:
    lipless, unlipped
  2. (in-compounds) Having some specific type of lip.
    • […] it seemes a holy quire
      Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre,
      Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes
      Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats
      In creame of morning Helicon […]1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-77
    • […] I have seen
      A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract
      Of inland ground, applying to his ear
      The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191

Also used as

lipped is also the simple past and past participle of lip.

Examples of lipped in a sentence

  • We met a yellow-lipped woman.
  • And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard...
  • Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4:
  • [He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3:

Antonyms of lipped

Forms of lipped

alternative form (obsolete)lipt

Origin of lipped

From lip + -ed.

Words formed from lipped

Phrases with lipped

Words that rhyme with lipped

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Questions about lipped

What does lipped mean?
Lipped means having a raised lip.
How do you use lipped in a sentence?
We met a yellow-lipped woman.
What part of speech is lipped?
Lipped is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lipped?
Lipped is pronounced /lɪpt/ (UK).

Words near lipped in the dictionary

  1. Lippard
  2. Lippardian
  3. Lippards
  4. Lippas
  5. Lippe
  6. lipped
  7. lipped off
  8. lipped out
  9. lippedness
  10. lippen
  11. lippened

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