POYNTED Synonyms

• having or resembling a stinger or barb

• (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point

• make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point

• capable of wounding

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• having cusps or points

• having a sharply uneven surface or outline

• having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• somewhat ill or prone to illness

• having or rising to a peak

• having prongs or tines; usually used in combination

• resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches

• notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• having or as if having especially high-pitched spots

• becoming gradually narrower

• bristling with perplexities

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic

• highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh

• a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)

• medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet

• any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere