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honed
adjective as in gnawing
Weak matches
aciculate, acuate, acuminous, acute, apical, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, ground fine, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, poin
adjective as in keen
adjective as in knifelike
Weak matches
aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted
adjective as in lancinating
Weak matches
aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, acute, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, fine, gnawing, ground fine, horned, jagged, keen, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, piercing, pointed, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, serrated, sharp-edged, sharpened, shooting, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, stabbing, stinging, tapered, tapering, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted
adjective as in marrowy
Weak matches
aphoristic, cogent, compact, concise, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, expressive, laconic, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant, succinct, terse, to the point, trenchant
adjective as in pithy
Weak matches
compact, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, expressive, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant
Strongest matches
Weak matches
aciculate, acuate, acuminate, acuminous, apical, barbed, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, edged, ground fine, horned, jagged, keen-edged, knife-edged, needle-pointed, needlelike, peaked, pointy, prickly, pronged, serrated, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, spiny, splintery, tapered, thorny, tined, tipped, unblunted, whetted
adjective as in stabbing
Strong matches
acuminate, barbed, edged, fine, gnawing, horned, jagged, keen, peaked, piercing, pointed, serrated, sharpened, shooting, spiked, stinging, tapered, tapering, tined, tipped, whetted
Weak matches
aciculate, acuate, acuminous, acute, apical, briery, cuspate, cuspidate, ground fine, keen-edged, knife-edged, knifelike, lancinating, needle-pointed, needlelike, pointy, prickly, pronged, razor-sharp, salient, sharp-edged, spiky, spiny, splintery, thorny, unblunted
Example Sentences
Listening to that long, repetitive breakup story is a skill that also requires honed patience.
Wedbush’s Scott Devitt also honed in on a “positive narrative shift,” while commenting that Amazon’s executive team appears to have won more credibility.
Wedbush’s Scott Devitt also honed in on a “positive narrative shift,” while commenting that Amazon’s executive team appears to have won more credibility.
Like many who defined soul, D’Angelo honed his talent in the church.
Democrats show no such concern, in part because they have honed the art of casting nakedly political prosecutions as high-minded civic virtue, clapped on by media and institutional elites.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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