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| Main Entry: |
sharpness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edge |
| Synonyms: | bite*, honing, incisiveness, keenness, polish, sharpening, sting* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Sharpness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
sharpness; acuity, acumination; spinosity., point, spike, spine, spiculum, needle, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca., nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet., crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple., beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle., wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears; sword (arms); bodkin (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker [U.S.]; drawing knife, drawing shave; Swiss Army knife., sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel, emery.
-verbs
be sharp; taper to a point; bristle with., render sharp; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind., cut (sunder).
-adjectives
sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred., acinaform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, laciform; awl-shaped, lance-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid., cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle; sharpened; set
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| Antonyms: | bluntness |
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| Main Entry: | accuracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precision or correctness |
| Synonyms: | accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, preciseness, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
| Antonyms: | erroneousness, falsehood, inaccuracy, mistake |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
| Synonyms: | activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness, swiftness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | asperity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harshness; bad temper |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, churlishness, crabbiness, crossness, difficulty, disagreeableness, irascibility, irritability, meanness, moroseness, peevishness, roughness, sharpness, sourness, sullenness, tartness |
| Antonyms: | calmness, happiness, kindness, mildness |
| Main Entry: | bitterness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sourness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acidity, acridity, astringency, brackishness, brininess, piquancy, pungency, sharpness, tartness, vinegariness |
| Antonyms: | sweetness |
| Main Entry: | chill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cold conditions |
| Synonyms: | bite, coldness, coolness, crispness, frigidity, gelidity, iciness, nip, rawness, rigor, sharpness |
| Antonyms: | heat, warmth |
| Main Entry: | cleverness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, ingenuity |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, calculation, canniness, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quick wit, quickness, resourcefulness, sagacity, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, skill, smartness, talent, wisdom, wit |
| Antonyms: | foolishness, ignorance, naievety, senselessness, stupidity |
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