Antonyms for pronged
Grammar : Adj, verb |
Spell : prawngd, prongd |
Phonetic Transcription : prɔŋd, prɒŋd |
- aboveboard
- aid
- assist
- benevolent
- bland
- blunt
- boring
- calm
- calming
- cure
- dull
- flat
- forthright
- frank
- heal
- help
- honest
- ignorant
- increase
- indefinite
- indistinct
- joined
- kind
- lazy
- low
- mild
- moderate
- nice
- old-fashioned
- rise
- slow
- smooth
- soothing
- stupid
- tasteless
- unbranched
- undefined
- unintelligent
- unite
- unstylish
Definition of pronged
Origin :- early 15c., prange "pointed instrument;" mid-15c., pronge "pain," from Anglo-Latin pronga "prong, pointed tool," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Middle Low German prange "stick, restraining device," prangen "to press, pinch." See also prod, which might be related. Prong-horned antelope is from 1815 (short form pronghorn attested from 1826).
- As in pointed : adj having a sharp end or part
- As in sharp : adj knifelike, cutting
- As in knifelike : adj sharp
- As in lancinating : adj sharp
- As in mucronate : adj pointed
- As in pointy : adj pointed
- As in stabbing : adj sharp
- As in forked : adj going separate ways
- As in stab : verb puncture, pierce with sharp, pointed object
- But it dodges out again like a wire worm through a three pronged fork.
- Extract from : « Last Words » by Juliana Horatia Ewing
- Even in the wild fly there is a three pronged mark on the thorax present in many individuals.
- Extract from : « A Critique of the Theory of Evolution » by Thomas Hunt Morgan
- A couple of pronged sticks are driven into the ground to serve as props for a horizontal bar.
- Extract from : « Rubber » by Edith A. Browne
- They run ort as tho Satun hisself was arter them with a red hot ten pronged pitchfork.
- Extract from : « The Complete Works of Artemus Ward » by Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)
- Not a word was said; but as they advanced the troops opened fire with their jingalls and darted their pronged spears at them.
- Extract from : « The Three Midshipmen » by W.H.G. Kingston
- These rods were pronged branches, sometimes of willow, but preferably of witch-hazel or wild cherry.
- Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl
- The man in the punt was busy catching eels with a pronged pole, tipped with iron.
- Extract from : « The Serf » by Guy Thorne
- Its jaws, pronged like antlers, projected two yards before its huge, faceted eyes.
- Extract from : « Planet of Dread » by Murray Leinster
- The pronged salmon spear is driven into the fleshy shoulders of the fish, when it is hauled out on to the bank.
- Extract from : « The Confessions of a Poacher » by Anonymous
- With a pronged implement that they had given him, he set to work to mash the food into as soft a mass as possible.
- Extract from : « The Martian » by Allen Glasser
Synonyms for pronged
- acicular
- aciculate
- aciculated
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- angled
- apical
- arrowlike
- barbed
- bayonet
- bifid
- bifurcate
- bifurcated
- branched
- branching
- brand
- briery
- carve
- chop
- cleave
- clip
- cornered
- cuspate
- cuspated
- cuspidate
- cuspidated
- cut
- dichotomous
- dichotonic
- divaricate
- divided
- drive
- edged
- fine
- furcate
- furcated
- gnawing
- gore
- ground fine
- hit
- honed
- horned
- hurt
- injure
- jab
- jag
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife
- knife-edged
- knifelike
- lancinating
- mucronate
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- open up
- peaked
- penetrate
- pierce
- piercing
- piked
- plow
- plunge
- pointed
- pointy
- prick
- prickly
- prong
- pronged
- punch
- ram
- razor-sharp
- run through
- saber
- sagittal
- sagittate
- salient
- serrated
- shank
- sharp
- sharp-cornered
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- sink
- slice
- spear
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- split
- stabbing
- stick
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- thrust
- tined
- tipped
- transfix
- tridented
- unblunted
- whetted
- wound
- zigzag
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