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Antonyms for needle-pointed
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : need-l-point |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnid lˌpɔɪnt |
Definition of needle-pointed
Origin :- "point of a needle," c.1700; "point lace made with the needle," 1865, from needle (n.) + point (n.).
- As in sharp : adj knifelike, cutting
- As in gnawing : adj sharp
- As in knifelike : adj sharp
- As in lancinating : adj sharp
- As in stabbing : adj sharp
- He does not mistake foreshortened ridges for needle-pointed peaks.
- Extract from : « The Alps » by Martin Conway
- Then then needle-pointed brain got in its word, and he added, "Why?"
- Extract from : « The Taming of Red Butte Western » by Francis Lynde
- The powerful drug in the needle-pointed head of each tiny crystal went directly into the bloodstream of each target.
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do ... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Yet the tremendous jaw-muscles of the chipmunk drove the needle-pointed teeth deep into the twisted, over-lapping fibres.
- Extract from : « Wild Folk » by Samuel Scoville
- The younger man without hesitation drove a needle-pointed creese three times into his ruler's breast.
- Extract from : « Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines » by H. Irving Hancock
- On the south appears the majestic massing of needle-pointed towers which Powell named the Pinnacles of the Virgin.
- Extract from : « The Book of the National Parks » by Robert Sterling Yard
- All that remained visible now was the jumbled mass of needle-pointed sparks of luminosity.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various
- It towers to the sky, its needle-pointed spires overtopping a crooked street which rises178 sharply from the river.
- Extract from : « The Cathedrals of Northern France » by Francis Miltoun
- The powerful drug in the needle-pointed head of each went into the bloodstream of the target.
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Beneath the sheet the Rat clutched the needle-pointed compasses and waited.
- Extract from : « Our Square and the People in It » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Synonyms for needle-pointed
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- poin
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
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