All splintery synonyms
splin·ter
S s adj splintery
- acuate — to sharpen
- crispy — Food that is crispy is pleasantly hard, or has a pleasantly hard surface.
- horned — made of horn.
- apical — of, at, or being the apex
- breakable — Breakable objects are easy to break by accident.
- acuminous — keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
- lancinating — to stab or pierce.
adjective splintery
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- honed — a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- whetted — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
- 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.
- edged — having an edge or edges (often used in combination): dull-edged; a two-edged sword.
- knifelike — Resembling a knife or its effects.