Cookie-cutter

Quick meaning: Cookie-cutter is an adjective meaning (figuratively, often derogatory) Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

Meaning

(figuratively, often derogatory) Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

More Meanings

1. (idiomatic, transitive, uncommon) To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal manner, often ensuring all the outputs are identical.
2. (chiefly attributive) Alternative form of cookie cutter.

Example Sentences

I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.

The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.

“Everything we do is planned and predictable. In the end, medicine is much more cookie-cutter than doctors care to admit, and we can exploit that.”

All clergy need to know the basics of Bible, theology, Christian education, and church history. Their training is therefore more cookie-cutter than individualized.

Word Forms

• cookie-cutters
• cookie-cuttering
• cookie-cuttered

Synonyms for cookie-cutter

Depending on context, synonyms include cookie-cuttered, cookie-cutterish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cookie-cutterish, banal, conventional, stereotypical, identikit, timeworn.

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