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All lancinating synonyms

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adjective lancinating

  • sharp — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • knifelike — Resembling a knife or its effects.

adj lancinating

  • aciculate — having aciculae
  • acuminate — narrowing to a sharp point, as some types of leaf
  • 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'.
  • barbed — A barbed remark or joke seems polite or humorous, but contains a cleverly hidden criticism.
  • cuspate — having a cusp or cusps
  • cuspidate — having a cusp or cusps
  • fine — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
  • gnawing — the act of a person or thing that gnaws.
  • jagged — having ragged notches, points, or teeth; zigzag: the jagged edge of a saw; a jagged wound.
  • keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
  • knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
  • 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.
  • piercing — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
  • pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
  • pointy — having a comparatively sharp point: The elf had pointy little ears.
  • prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
  • salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
  • serrated — Chiefly Biology. notched on the edge like a saw: a serrate leaf.
  • shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • stabbing — penetrating; piercing: a stabbing pain.
  • tapering — to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
  • thorny — abounding in or characterized by thorns; spiny; prickly.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pronged — having prongs (often used in combination): a four-pronged fork.
  • sharp-edged — having a fine edge or edges.
  • spiky — having a spike or spikes.
  • spiny — abounding in or having spines; thorny, as a plant.
  • 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.
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