All apical synonyms

adj apical

• sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
• finest — fines. Mining. crushed ore sufficiently fine to pass through a given screen. Compare short (def 29e). Agriculture. the fine bits of corn kernel knocked off during handling of the grain.
• dominant — ruling, governing, or controlling; having or exerting authority or influence: dominant in the chain of command.
• preeminent — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
• leading — made of or containing lead: a lead pipe; a lead compound.
• primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
• principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
• 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'.
• pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
• prime — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
• superior — higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.: a superior officer.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
• crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
• upper — higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice.
• crack — If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
• maximum — the greatest quantity or amount possible, assignable, allowable, etc.
• culminating — final; decisive
• sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
• chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
• outside — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
• ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• capital — Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
• tiptop — the extreme top or summit.
• first — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
• piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
• keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
• salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
• fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
• tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
• jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
• peaked — Also, on-peak. being at the point of maximum frequency, intensity, use, etc.; busiest or most active: Hotel rooms are most expensive during the peak travel seasons.
• 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.
• aciculate — having aciculae
• acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
• cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
• cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
• pointy — having a comparatively sharp point: The elf had pointy little ears.
• spiny — abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
• acuate — to sharpen
• acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
• briar — A briar is a wild rose with long, prickly stems.
• edged — having an edge or edges (often used in combination): dull-edged; a two-edged sword.
• 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.