lipped

L1I1P3P3E1D2
US, UK/lɪpt/

adjective

Having a raised lip.

“lipped pitcher”

Similar
bilabiatetwo-lippedlabiateliplikethick-lippedthree-lipped
Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivelipped (not comparable)

alternative obsolete lipt

  1. not comparableHaving a raised lip.

    lipped pitcher

    Antonyms: lipless, unlipped

  2. in compoundsnot comparableHaving some specific type of lip.

    1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1, The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.

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    […] 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

    1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191, […] 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;

    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 Bentley, →OCLC

    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
verb

alternative obsolete lipt

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of lip.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving a raised lip.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving a lip or lips

Similar
bilabiatetwo-lippedlabiateliplikethick-lippedthree-lipped
Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Irish gobach
  • gobachhaving a raised lip

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

lipped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lipped

MLA

“lipped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lipped. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lipped,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lipped.

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