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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
Almost half of their squad have honed their game in England's PWR and all of them are smart, all-court rugby players.
Hatton's parents made a small gym in the basement of their pub when he was 12, and it was there that he honed his skills on a punching bag.
Early in Saturday’s game, the Dodgers had honed a sound approach.
This is the dynamic the Dodgers have honed in on fixing, hoping to turn their summer-long frustrations into a valuable learning experience as October nears.
Although there is little obvious overlap between her PhD work and what she has done as an astronaut, the skills she honed have certainly contributed to her successful career.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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