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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculated, acute, cuspated, cuspidated, edged, fine, mucronate, pointy, sharp, tapering |
| Main Entry: | acute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a sharp end or point |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, cuspate, cuspidate, knifelike, needle-shaped, peaked, piked, pointed, sharpened, spiked |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | hone |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sharpen |
| Synonyms: | acuminate, edge, file, grind, make sharp, put a point on, put an edge on, whet |
| Notes: | hone means to sharpen, while home (in) means to seek out a target; you can hone a skill but you home in on something |
| Main Entry: | pointed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a sharp end or part |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, arrowlike, barbed, cornered, cuspidate, edged, fine, keen, mucronate, peaked, piked, pointy, pronged, sagittal, sagittate, sharp, sharp-cornered, spiked |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knifelike, cutting |
| Synonyms: | aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, ground fine, honed, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | sharpen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make knifelike |
| Synonyms: | acuminate, dress, edge, file, grind, hone, make acute, make sharp, put a point on, put an edge on, sharp, stroke, strop, taper, whet |
| Antonyms: | blunt, dull |
| Main Entry: | tapering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrowing |
| Synonyms: | acuminate, acuminous, conical, fusiform, lanceolar, pyramidal, taper, wedged |
| Antonyms: | widening |
| Main Entry: | acicular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acerate, acerose, acerous, aciculated, acuminate, acute, cuspated, cuspidated, mucronate, needle-shaped, pointy, sharp |
| Main Entry: | aciculate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acerate, acerose, acicular, aciculated, acuminate, acute, cuspated, cuspidated, mucronate, needle-shaped, pointy, sharp |
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