All acuminous synonyms

adj acuminous

• sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
• pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
• sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
• barbed — A barbed remark or joke seems polite or humorous, but contains a cleverly hidden criticism.
• keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
• fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
• edged — having an edge or edges (often used in combination): dull-edged; a two-edged sword.
• cornered — having (a specified number or type of) corners
• salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
• tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• taper — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• wedged — having the shape of a wedge.
• piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
• acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
• cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
• cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
• knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
• piked — a shafted weapon having a pointed head, formerly used by infantry.
• acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
• mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
• pointy — having a comparatively sharp point: The elf had pointy little ears.
• arrow — An arrow is a written or printed sign that consists of a straight line with another line bent at a sharp angle at one end. This is a printed arrow: →. The arrow points in a particular direction to indicate where something is.
• pronged — having prongs (often used in combination): a four-pronged fork.
• sagittal — Anatomy. of or relating to the suture between the parietal bones at the roof of the skull or to a venous canal within the skull and parallel to this suture. (in direction or location) from front to back in the median plane or in a plane parallel to the median.
• sagittate — shaped like an arrowhead.
• jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
• prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
• serrated — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
• thorny — abounding in or characterized by thorns; spiny; prickly.
• spiny — abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
• acuate — to sharpen
• apical — of, at, or being the apex
• briar — A briar is a wild rose with long, prickly stems.
• honed — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
• horned — made of horn.
• knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
• needlelike — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
• sharp-edged — having a fine edge or edges.
• spiky — having a spike or spikes.
• splintery — a small, thin, sharp piece of wood, bone, or the like, split or broken off from the main body.
• tapered — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• tined — a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
• blunt — If you are blunt, you say exactly what you think without trying to be polite.
• whetted — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
• conical — A conical object is shaped like a cone.
• fusiform — spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.
• pyramidal — of, relating to, or shaped like a pyramid: the pyramidal form.
• lancinating — to stab or pierce.
• gnawing — the act of a person or thing that gnaws.