All gnawing synonyms
gnaw·ing
G g adj gnawing
- sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- 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.
- barbed — A barbed remark or joke seems polite or humorous, but contains a cleverly hidden criticism.
- pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- 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.
- acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
- jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
- 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.
- horned — made of horn.
- honed — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- aciculate — having aciculae
- 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'.
- 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.
- lancinating — to stab or pierce.
- acuate — to sharpen
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- briar — A briar is a wild rose with long, prickly stems.
- 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.