Synonyms for Pointed:

adj.
• meaty
- full of content
- full content
- pro found
- pro founder
- pro-found
- pro-founder
• noticeable
- big as life
- can't miss it
- open and shut
- under one's nose
- cant miss it
- eye catching
- eyecatching
- open shut
- under nose
- under one nose
- under ones nose
• persuasive
- Convictive
- Inveigling
- inducing
• pungent
- salter
• relevant
- applicable
- apposite
- appropriate
- apropos
- apt
- fitting
- germane
- logical
- pertinent
- relevant
- suitable
• sharp
- Thistly
- apical
- bristly
- double-edged
- ground fine
- needle-like
- needle-point
- pointy
- razor-edged
- sagittal
- sharp
- spear-like
- spiked
- spikier
- spikiest
- spiky
- spinous
- spiny
- thorny
- sharp-edged
- splintery
• short
- Curtate
- Unsustained
- breviloquent
- compendiary
- cut to bone
- cut to the bone
- decurtate
- not protracted
- under-sized
- shortest
- unprolonged
• visible
- be seen
- discoverable
- in sight
- in view
- not hidden
- out in the open
- seeable
- to be seen
- viewable
- unhidden
• witty
- adroit
- artful
- astute
- brilliant
- canny
- clever
- comical
- crafty
- cunning
- deft
- droll
- dry
- facetious
- foxy
- funny
- ingenious
- intelligent
- inventive
- jocular
- joking
- quick
- quick-witted
- resourceful
- sarcastic
- scintillating
- scurrilous
- shrewd
- sly
- smart
- sophisticated
- sparkling
- subtle
- tricky
- urbane
- waggish
- wily
- witty
• acute
- more acuminous
- more acute
- more needle shaped
- more needle-shaped
- more needleshaped
- more piked
- more sharpened
- most acuminous
- most needle shaped
- most needle-shaped
- most needleshaped
- most piked
- most sharpened
- needle shaped
- needleshaped
• all
- pointed
• arresting
- extra-ordinary
• compact
- boiled down
- in nutshell
- make long story short
- short sweet
- to point
• conical/conic
- cone shaped
- coneshaped
- funnel shaped
- funnelshaped
- more cone shaped
- more cone-shaped
- more coned
- more coneshaped
- more conoid
- more conoidal
- more funnel shaped
- more funnel-shaped
- more funnelshaped
- more pyramidal
- more strobilate
- more strobiloid
- more tapered
- most cone shaped
- most cone-shaped
- most coned
- most coneshaped
- most conoid
- most conoidal
- most funnel shaped
- most funnel-shaped
- most funnelshaped
- most pyramidal
- most strobilate
- most strobiloid
- most tapered
• conspicuous
- famous
- glitzier
- glitziest
- more arrestive
- more screaming
- most arrestive
- most famous
- most screaming
- out standing
- screaming
- well known
- wellknown
• cutting
- In-going
- clearcut
- in going
- in goinger
- in goingest
- in-goinger
- in-goingest
- ingoinger
- ingoingest
- more wounding
- most wounding
- scathing
• emphatic
- de finite
- de-finite
- for face
- more accented
- more pronounced
- more stressed
- more telling
- most accented
- most stressed
- most telling
- re sounding
- re-sounding
- resounding
- un mistakable
- un-mistakable
• express
- clean cut
- cleancut
- de liberate
- de-liberate
- ex act
- ex press
- ex pressed
- ex-act
- ex-press
- ex-pressed
- in dividual
- in tended
- in-dividual
- in-tended
- more designful
- more expressed
- more witting
- most designful
- most expressed
- most witting
- out right
- out righter
- out rightest
- out-right
- out-righter
- pre meditated
- pre-meditated
- un ambiguous
- un conditional
- un qualified
- un-conditional
- un-qualified
- uttered
• expressive
- more revelatory
- more understanding
- most revelatory
- re presentative
- re-presentative
- silver tongued
- silvertongued
- under standing
- under-standing
• gnawing
- Gnawing
- poiner
- poinest
• having a sharp end or part
- arrowlike
• jagged
- in dented
- in-dented
- more asperous
- more denticulate
- more toothed
- more unlevel
- most asperous
- most denticulate
- most toothed
- most unlevel
- ridged
- snaggier
- snaggiest
- un even
- un level
- un smooth
- un smoother
- un smoothest
- un-even
- un-level
- un-smooth
- un-smoother
- un-smoothest
- unsmoother
- unsmoothest
• keen
- in tense
- in tenser
- in-tense
- in-tenser
- in-tensest
- more edged
- more honed
- more razor sharp
- more razor-sharp
- more razorsharp
- more unblunted
- most edged
- most honed
- most razor sharp
- most razor-sharp
- most razorsharp
- most unblunted
- quick witted
- quickwitted
- razor sharp
- razorsharp
- un blunted
- un-blunted
• meaningful
- re levant
- re-levant
• penetrating, biting
- Insinuating
- accurate
- calling a spade a spade
- laid on the line
- legit
- on the button
- on the nose
- right to it
- right-on
v.
• indicated
- Beckoned
- Betokened
- Denoted
- Flagged
- Motioned
- Nodded
- Shrugged
- Signaled
- Symbolized
- Ticketed
- alerted
- branded
- nudged
- pointed out
- stamped
- tagged
• perforated
- Gouged
- Lanced
- Penetrated
- Poked
- Punched
- Skewered
- Speared
- bored
- drilled
- perforated
- pierced
- punctured
- stuck
Other synonyms:

•

prominent
pronounced

•

bold

•

directly

•

see
signal

•

free

Other relevant words:

• compact

sententious

• cone-shaped

conical

• convincing

persuasive

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What are the paraphrases for Pointed?

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Reverse Entailment
- Verb, past tense
  pinpointed.
- Verb, past participle
  Stationed, pinpointed.
Independent
- Adjective
  noted, specific, Indicated.
- Proper noun, singular
  tips.
- Verb, past tense
  accent, accused, acknowledged, acquired, added, addressed, admitted, advised, affirm, affirmed, africa, african, agreed, alleged, allude, announced, announcement, applied, appointed, appreciated, arranged, articulated, asserted, assumed, assured, ate, attempted, attended, attention, baked, broke, built, buried, burned, busted, called, careful, cast, caution, celebrated, changed, characterised, characterized, charter, checked, clarified, cleared, commissioned, completed, conceded, concentrated, concerned, concluded, condemned, conducted, conferred, confirmed, considered, constituted, conveyed, covered, cut, dated, declared, defined, delegation, demonstrated, describe, described, detected, determined, dipped, directed, discarded, disclosed, discovered, dismissed, divided, dominated, donated, done, drew, dropped, drove, dumped, earned, edited, elaborated, elicited, emphasise, emphasised, emphasize, emphasized, ended, engaged, enhance, estimated, evoked, exhibit, experienced, exposed, expressed, faced, featured, fell, felt, filled, finished, fired, floored, footnote, formed, found, frightened, fulfilled, handled, headed, heard, held, highlight, hired, hurt, identified, identify, illuminated, illustrated, implied, included, indicate, informed, initiated, instructed, intensified, interpreted, invested, just, kept, lay, led, left, lifted, listed, lit, made, maintained, memorandum, moderated, moved, named, nominated, note, noted, noticed, observer, opened, ordered, outlined, packed, paid, painted, part, paved, perceived, placed, planted, plastered, played, pledged, posed, post, posted, presented, pressed, proclaimed, produced, pronounced, proposed, proved, pulled, pumped, pursued, raised, read, reaffirm, realized, received, recognised, recognized, recorded, recovered, reference, referenced, reflected, registered, reinforced, rejected, related, released, relieved, remembered, remind, reported, required, revealed, rolled, rose, ruled, said, sat, saw, scared, scrubbed, seat, seized, sent, shall, shed, shot, shouldered, signified, signify, smuggled, sold, sought, sounded, specify, spent, split, spoke, stabilized, staged, stopped, strengthen, strengthened, strengthening, stressed, struck, stuck, studied, stuffed, suggested, supervised, supported, sustained, taught, terminated, theory, thought, touched, traced, transformed, transmitted, travelled, tried, turned, uncovered, underline, used, voiced, wanted, washed, watch, welcomed, Accounted, Achieved, Achieving, Acted, Aimed, Alluded, Answered, Appealed, Appeared, Applauded, Approached, Argued, Asked, Assessed, Attracted, Attributed, Was, Became, Began, Believed, Benefited, Blew, Bought, Bowled, Brandished, Brought, Came, Captured, Carried, Caught, Caused, Cautioned, Chaired, Challenged, Charted, Circled, Cited, Claimed, Climbed, Dealt, Decried, Deemed, Delivered, Denounced, Deplored, Did, Discussed, Displayed, Doing, Drafted, Echoed, Elucidated, Embarked, Embraced, Emerged, Endured, Enjoyed, Entered, Enumerated, Exemplified, Exercised, Exhibited, Existed, Explained, Expounded, Fought, Filed, Flagged, Flew, Followed, Forming, Forwarded, Gained, Garnered, Gave, Generated, Went, Got, Greeted, Had, Happened, Helped, Hinted, Indicated, Indicating, Indicted, Inserted, Insisted, Introduced, Invoked, Issued, Killed, Knocked, Lasted, Launched, Logged, Looked, Lured, Managed, Manifested, Meant, Mentioned, My, Necessitated, Notified, Occurred, Offered, Participated, Passed, Performed, Persisted, Piloted, Pleaded, Questioned, Quoted, Raided, Ran, Rang, Ranged, Rated, Referred, Refuted, Regarded, Reiterated, Relied, Remarked, Rendered, Replied, Resembled, Responded, Resulted, Rode, Sailed, Seemed, Served, Shoved, Signaled, Slept, Slid, Tackled, Took, Talked, Teamed, Told, Tended, Termed, Testified, Threw, Towards, Tricked, Underwent, Undertook, Urged, Viewed, Voted, Vowed, Waged, Walked, Warned, Watched, Waved, Wore, Were, Wished, Worked, Wrote, Yielded, Yourself, Commenced, Commended, Commented, Complained, Concurred, Considering, Contended, Contributed, Crawled, Created, Criticised, Praised, Proceeded, Promoted, Prompted, Prosecuted, Protested, Purchased, Provided, Punched, Pushed, Spared, Specifying, Steered, Stipulated, Stood, started, Submitted, Suffered, Supplemented, Switched, Swore, Gestures, touches, contacted, underlined, stresses, states, contains, recounted, summarized, tabled, notes, criticized, posts, powers, directives, exhibits, indicates, alerted, briefed, circulated, showed, ensured, references, restated, reproduced, hosted, cooks, presses, recalled, HIT, GONNA, GOTTA, indicators, reconfirmed, kicked, reaffirmed, backtracked, phoned, highlights, spearheaded, stashed, highlighted, telephoned, reminded, showcased, underscored, monitored, laid, signalled, mr, us, to, fucked, maketh, CAILED, 'd, re-emphasized, expalined, "s, 'il, =.
- Verb, past participle
  accomplished, accused, acknowledged, acquired, add, added, addressed, adjusted, admitted, advised, affirmed, agreed, al, aligned, alleged, altered, announced, applied, appointed, appropriated, aroused, arranged, articulated, ascertained, asserted, assigned, assumed, assured, attached, attended, attested, baked, biased, bound, broached, built, busted, calculated, called, cast, characterised, characterized, checked, chosen, clarified, cleared, come, completed, conceded, concerned, condemned, conducted, confirmed, considered, contained, cooked, covered, cut, dated, declared, deducted, defined, delineated, demonstrated, derived, described, designated, designed, destined, detected, determined, directed, disclosed, discovered, distinguished, documented, dominated, donated, done, drawn, driven, earned, effected, elaborated, emphasised, emphasized, endorsed, enforced, engaged, entitled, esteemed, estimated, evidenced, evoked, executed, experienced, exposed, expressed, faced, fallen, featured, felt, filled, finished, fixed, foreseen, forgotten, formed, formulated, found, framed, fulfilled, geared, given, gone, graded, guided, ha, handled, have, headed, heard, held, heralded, hurt, identified, illustrated, implemented, included, incorporated, increased, indicate, informed, insert, instructed, intended, invested, invited, kept, known, labelled, learned, led, left, let, licensed, lifted, listed, made, maintained, memorandum, moved, named, nominated, note, noted, noticed, obliged, opened, orientated, outlined, overcome, packed, paid, painted, paved, perceived, permitted, placed, played, pledged, portrayed, posed, posted, preferred, prescribed, presented, pressed, produced, pronounced, proposed, proved, proven, pulled, pursued, raised, realized, received, recognised, recognized, recorded, recovered, reference, referenced, reflected, registered, reinforced, released, relieved, remembered, removed, repeated, reported, retained, revealed, risen, rolled, ruled, run, said, satisfied, seat, seen, seized, selected, sent, shaped, shed, shot, shouldered, sighted, signified, simplified, spoken, standardised, streamlined, stressed, struck, stuck, studied, substantiated, suggested, suited, supposed, taken, taught, thought, thrown, titled, touched, traced, trained, transformed, transmitted, transposed, travelled, tried, turned, uncovered, uplifted, used, useful, valued, voiced, welcomed, witnessed, worn, Accorded, Accounted, Achieved, Acted, Adduced, Adhered, Advocated, Aimed, Allowed, Alluded, Answered, Appealed, Appeared, Apprised, Approached, Argued, Arisen, Asked, Assessed, Attracted, Attributed, Been, Borne, Believed, Betrayed, Brought, Captured, Carried, Caught, Caused, Challenged, Channelled, Charted, Cited, Claimed, Cobbled, Dealt, Debated, Deemed, Delivered, Denoted, Denounced, Deployed, Detained, Dialed, Discussed, Displayed, Echoed, Embarked, Embraced, Emerged, Enabled, Encountered, Engrained, Enjoyed, Enshrined, Entered, Enumerated, Exercised, Exerted, Exhibited, Expelled, Explained, Fought, Filed, Flagged, Followed, Forwarded, Gained, Generated, Gotten, Got, Had, Happened, Has, Heightened, Helped, Hinted, Indicated, Influenced, Insisted, Intimated, Introduced, Investigated, Invoked, Issued, Jo, Judged, Launched, Learnt, Lived, Lodged, Logged, Looked, Lured, Manifested, Mapped, Meant, Met, Mentioned, Mooted, Notified, Occurred, Offered, Performed, Perpetrated, Pleaded, Quoted, Rated, Reached, Referred, Regarded, Relegated, Relied, Remarked, Remitted, Rendered, Repealed, Replied, Responded, Resulted, Retrieved, Riveted, Robbed, Screwed, Seconded, Seemed, Served, Shown, Signaled, Tackled, Talked, Told, Termed, Transferred, Undergone, Undertaken, Upheld, Urged, Viewed, Warned, Watched, Worked, Yielded, Commended, Communicated, Complained, Complied, Comprised, Constructed, Contended, Contributed, Created, Criticised, Posited, Praised, Prompted, Prosecuted, Protested, Provided, Punched, Pushed, Spared, Steered, Submitted, Succeeded, Suffered, Summoned, Surveyed, escalated, underlined, summarized, tabled, criticized, sparked, briefed, showed, ensured, replaced, reproduced, positioned, reviewed, recalled, withheld, HIT, reconfirmed, reaffirmed, leveraged, highlighted, reminded, showcased, underscored, laid, signalled, spotlighted, us, fucked, abovementioned, decommitted, TEII, outposted.
Other Related
- Adjective
  sharp, pointy.
- Verb, past tense
  Scored.
- Verb, past participle
  Scored.

What are the hypernyms for Pointed?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
acute, angular, barbed, needlelike, sharp, tapering, pointy.

What are the antonyms for Pointed?

adj.
• aimless
- Objectless
- bits and pieces
- bits-and-pieces
- directionless
- fits and starts
- fits starts
- flighty
- goalless
- in decisive
- in discriminate
- in-decisive
- in-discriminate
- more bits and pieces
- more bits-and-pieces
- more directionless
- more drifting
- more goalless
- more objectless
- more undirected
- more unguided
- more vagrant
- most bits and pieces
- most bits-and-pieces
- most directionless
- most drifting
- most goalless
- most objectless
- most undirected
- most unguided
- most vagrant
- un availing
- un directed
- un guided
- un planned
- un predictable
- un-availing
- un-directed
- un-guided
- un-planned
- un-predictable
- undirected
- unguided
- wayward
• all
- pointless
• blunt
- dis courteous
- dis-courteous
- edgeless
- in sensitive
- in-sensitive
- matter of fact
- more dulled
- more edgeless
- more unsharpened
- most dulled
- most edgeless
- most plain spoken
- most plain-spoken
- most unsharpened
- out spoken
- out-spoken
- plain spoken
- un civil
- un polished
- un sharpened
- un-ceremonious
- un-civil
- un-sharpened
- unsharpened
• dull
- Numskulled
- be sotted
- be-sotted
- big yawn
- de pressed
- de-pressed
- dim witted
- draggier
- draggiest
- draggy
- dun
- duner
- dunest
- edentulate
- feeble minded
- ho hum
- in different
- in distinct
- in sensate
- in sensible
- in sipid
- in-active
- in-different
- in-distinct
- in-sensate
- in-sensible
- in-sipid
- longwinded
- matte
- mattest
- more abused
- more blunted
- more edentate
- more edentulate
- more muted
- more numskulled
- more oft-repeated
- more oftrepeated
- more subfusc
- more toned down
- more toned-down
- more toneddown
- more toothless
- more turned
- more uninspiring
- more unintellectual
- more unlit
- more unpointed
- most blunted
- most driveling
- most edentate
- most edentulate
- most muted
- most numskulled
- most oft repeated
- most oft-repeated
- most oftrepeated
- most softened
- most subfusc
- most toned down
- most toned-down
- most toneddown
- most toothless
- most turned
- most uninspiring
- most unintellectual
- most unlit
- most unpointed
- not bright
- not keen
- oft repeated
- oft-repeated
- out of date
- over cast
- over-cast
- prosiest
- re gular
- re-gular
- run of the mill
- simple minded
- subfusc
- toned-down
- toneddown
- toothless
- un exciting
- un imaginative
- un intellectual
- un pointed
- un responsive
- un sympathetic
- un-exciting
- un-imaginative
- un-inspiring
- un-intellectual
- un-pointed
- un-responsive
- uninspiring
- unintellectual
- unlit
- unpointed
- wornout
- yawnest
• having a sharp end or part
- blunt
- calming
- dull
- mild
- nice
- soothing
• having no goal
- aimless
• noun
- extraneous
- frivolous
- immaterial
- inadmissible
- inconsequential
- indirect
- insignificant
- little
- meaningless
- minor
- negligible
- purposeless
- rounded
- senseless
- slight
- trifling
- trivial
- unimportant
- useless
• obtuse
- Imperceptive
- more imperceptive
- most imperceptive
- slow on uptake
- slow uptake
- un comprehending
- un intelligent
- un-comprehending
- un-intelligent
• penetrating, biting
- gentle
- kind
- stupid
• pointless
- Purportless
- around circles
- around in circles
- going nowhere
- in consequential
- in effective
- in effectual
- in significant
- in vicious circle
- in-consequential
- in-effective
- in-effectual
- more nongermane
- more purportless
- most nongermane
- most purportless
- needle haystack
- needle in haystack
- non germane
- non-germane
- nongermane
- not pertinent
- on treadmill
- re-mote
- un interesting
- un necessary
- un productive
- un profitable
- un-necessary
- un-productive
- un-profitable
• slow to understand
- obtuse
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Usage examples for Pointed

He held a rifle in his hand, and the weapon was pointed at the balloon.

"Leo the Circus Boy"

Ralph Bonehill

Anna pointed out the opportunities of such a journey.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

Anna pointed to me.

"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"

Alexander Irvine

Famous quotes with Pointed

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Earl Blumenauer
I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.

Christopher Bond
I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

David R. Brower
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

Meg Cabot

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adj.

v.

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