English Explanatory Dictionary

pointed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. simple past and past participle of point
adj
  1. Sharp, barbed; not dull.
  2. Having a certain number of points.
  3. Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
  4. In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
  5. Directed negatively at a person or topic.
  6. That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
  7. precise, on the dot.

Pronunciation

poinʹtĭd /ˈpɔɪntɪd/ /ˈpɔɪnɪd/ en-us-pointed.ogg

Word forms

pointed more pointed most pointed

Synonyms

pointy sharp

Antonyms

blunt

Derived words

bipointed bullet-pointed double-pointed needle Earth-pointed multipointed overpointed pointed cabbage pointedly pointedness sharp-pointed tripointed unpointed well-pointed
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