Pointed synonyms
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Part of speech:
Very sharp; keen:
Acutely sensitive:
Cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting
Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
(Figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
sharp (related)
sarcastic (related)
Free from mistakes or errors; precise
Having a sharp point
Tapering gradually to a sharp point, as the tips of certain leaves.
Extremely sharp or severe; intense:
Having a barb or barbs
Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
Expressing much in few words; clear and succinct.
Of a cone
Attracting attention by being unexpected, unusual, outstanding, or egregious; striking
cultrate
Sharp-edged and pointed; knifelike:
Proceeding without interruption in a straight course or line; not deviating or swerving:
(Linguistics) Of or relating to that member of a pair of words or forms that explicitly denotes a particular subset of the meanings denoted by the other member of the pair. For example, of the two words lion and lioness, lion is unmarked for gender (it can denote either a male or female) whereas lioness is marked, since it denotes only females.
Ending in a peak; pointed:
Able or seeming to penetrate:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Caustic; cutting; sarcastic
piked
Piercing; incisive:
That strikes or is on strike
dull (antonym)
pointless (antonym)
blunt (antonym)
soothing (antonym)
calming (antonym)
mild (antonym)
nice (antonym)
Having the shape of a needle:
Having marks like scratches made by a needle
Alternative form of aciculate.
Having a cusp.
Having a cusp or cusps
Alternative form of cuspidate.
Having many points
Attracting attention; interesting; striking
Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
Worthy of notice; significant:
A measurable property of a physical system, such as mass or momentum. In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to mathematical operators used in the calculation of measurable quantities. Operators that do not commute , having a nonzero commutator , correspond to observables that cannot be precisely measured at the same time, such as momentum and position.
Noticeable or conspicuous:
Widely known; specif., significant and widely know within a particular field
Spoken; voiced.
Worthy of remark or notice
Projecting or jutting beyond a line or surface; protruding:
A fluctuating quantity or impulse whose variations represent information. The amplitude or frequency of voltage, current, electric field strength, light, and sound can be varied as signals representing information.
sticking out like a sore thumb
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