Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | under attack |
| Synonyms: | at bay, treed |
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| 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: | between the devil and the deep blue sea |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a tight spot |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, Hobson's choice, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and a hard place, between the hammer and the anvil, between two fires, cornered, in a dilemma, in a pickle, in a predicament, in the middle, no choice, sitting on a powder keg |
| Main Entry: | trapped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | caught in a trap |
| Synonyms: | ambushed, at bay, captured, cornered |
| Main Entry: | mucronate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculate, aciculated, acuminate, acuminous, acute, barbed, cornered, cuspate, cuspated, cuspidate, cuspidated, edged, fine, keen, peaked, piked, pointy, pronged, sharp, sharp-cornered, spiked |
| Main Entry: | pointy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pointed |
| Synonyms: | acicular, aciculate, aciculated, acuminate, acuminous, acute, barbed, cornered, cuspate, cuspated, cuspidate, cuspidated, edged, fine, keen, mucronate, peaked, piked, pronged, sharp, sharp-cornered, spiked |
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| Main Entry: | angular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
acute-angled, aduncous, akimbo, angular, aquiline, arake, arcuate, bent, bifurcate, catawamptious, crinkled, crooked, cubical, cuneiform, dihedral, dovetailed, epinastic, equilateral, falcated, falciform, forked, furcated, geniculate, gleed, icosahedral, icositetrahedral, oblique-angled, obpyramidal, obtuse-angled, orthogonal, pentahedral, perpendicular, polygonal, repandous, retrorse, retroussé, rhombic, tetrahedral, zigzag
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