pointed
Sharp, barbed; not dull.
Example
“The warrior brandished a pointed spear.”
Other meanings
Having a certain number of points.
“a five-pointed star”
Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
Related words
- bipointed
- multipointed
- overpointed
- pointedness
- tripointed
- unpointed
- Earth-pointed
- bullet-pointed
- pointed cabbage
- sharp-pointed
- well-pointed
- pointedly
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pointed” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.