clipped (root: clip)

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

clipped, adj. 

•  trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  staccato; -- contrasted with legato.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  effectively concise.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

clipped

Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated