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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | point |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show as probable; call attention |
| Synonyms: | bespeak, button down, denote, designate, direct, finger*, hint, imply, indicate, lead, make*, name, offer, peg, pin down, put down for, put finger on, signify, suggest, tab, tag* |
| Notes: | the stylus, or point, of a record player is held by the cartridge; the base of the turntable is called the deck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | point |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | direct, lead |
| Synonyms: | aim, beam*, bring to bear, cast, face, guide, head, influence, lay, level, look, slant, steer, tend, train, turn, zero in |
| Notes: | the stylus, or point, of a record player is held by the cartridge; the base of the turntable is called the deck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | compact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, brief |
| Synonyms: | boiled down, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, in a nutshell, laconic, make a long story short, marrowy, meaty, pithy, pointed, short and sweet, succinct, terse, to the point |
| Notes: | a compact is a formal agreement on rights and conduct, a treaty is a compact between nations, and a contract is a compact between two business entities |
| Antonyms: | big, large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | conical/conic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shaped cylindrically and with a point |
| Synonyms: | cone-shaped, coned, conoid, conoidal, funnel-shaped, pointed, pyramidal, sharp, strobilate, strobiloid, tapered, tapering |
| Main Entry: | conspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, prominent |
| Synonyms: | arresting, arrestive, blatant, celebrated, commanding, distinguished, eminent, famed, famous, flagrant, flashy, garish, glaring, glitzy, illustrious, influential, jazzy, loud, marked, notable, noted, notorious, outstanding, pointed, rank, remarkable, renowned, salient, screaming, showy, signal, splashy, stick out like sore thumb, striking, tony, well-known |
| Antonyms: | inconspicuous, obscure, unimportant, unknown, unremarkable |
| Main Entry: | cutting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hateful |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, clear-cut, crisp, hurtful, incisive, ingoing, malicious, penetrating, piercing, pointed, probing, raw, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, wounding |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | emphatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insistent, unequivocal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, accented, assertive, assured, categorical, certain, cogent, confident, decided, definite, definitive, determined, direct, distinct, dogmatic, dynamic, earnest, energetic, explicit, express, flat, for a face, forceful, forcible, important, impressive, marked, momentous, no mistake, pointed, positive, potent, powerful, pronounced, resounding, significant, sober, solemn, stressed, striking, strong, sure, telling, trenchant, unmistakable, vigorous |
| Antonyms: | equivocal, indefinite, indistinct, insignificant, reserved, understated, unpronounced |
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