Exact Match:
- tapered
- becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs"
Synonyms:
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- barbed,
- cone-shaped,
- cornuted,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- hispid,
- horned,
- horny,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- sharp-pointed,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- taper,
- tapering,
- tined,
- toothed,
- unbated
Related Words:
- barbed
collapse - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
- capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" related words >
- spiked
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- having a long sharp point
- equipped with long sharp-pointed projections especially along the top of a wall or fence; "the fence was iron and spiked along the top" related words >
- tapering
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- the act of gradually lowering the size or amount; "the doctor prescribed the tapering of the dose"
- gradually narrowed toward a point; "a tall tapering spire" related words >
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- barbed,
- coarctation,
- cone-shaped,
- constriction,
- contraction,
- cornuted,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- hispid,
- horned,
- horny,
- mucronate,
- narrowing,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- sharp-pointed,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- stricture,
- taper,
- tapered,
- tined,
- toothed,
- unbated
- pronged
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- having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork" related words >
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- arboreal,
- arborescent,
- arboriform,
- barbed,
- biforked,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcated,
- branched,
- branching,
- branchlike,
- cornuted,
- crotched,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- forked,
- forking,
- forklike,
- furcate,
- hispid,
- horned,
- horny,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- pointed,
- ramous,
- sharp-pointed,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- tined,
- toothed,
- tree-shaped,
- treelike,
- tridentlike,
- trifurcate,
- trifurcated,
- unbated
- horned
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- having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind; "horned viper"; "great horned owl"; "the unicorn--a mythical horned beast"; "long-horned cattle" related words >
- Cynthian,
- S-shaped,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- barbed,
- bicorn,
- corniform,
- cornuted,
- crescent,
- crescent-shaped,
- crescentic,
- crescentiform,
- crescentlike,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- falcate,
- falciform,
- hispid,
- horn-shaped,
- horny,
- lunar,
- lunate,
- luniform,
- lunular,
- menisciform,
- meniscoid,
- moon-shaped,
- moonlike,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- pointed,
- pronged,
- semicircular,
- semilunar,
- sharp-pointed,
- sickle-like,
- sickle-shaped,
- sigmoid,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- tined,
- toothed,
- two-horned,
- unbated
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- arduous,
- barbed,
- brutal,
- complex,
- cornuted,
- critical,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hispid,
- horned,
- horny,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- mean,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nettlesome,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- operose,
- pointed,
- prickly,
- pronged,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sharp-pointed,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- tined,
- toilsome,
- toothed,
- tough,
- tricky,
- unbated,
- uphill,
- wicked
- toothed
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- having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination; "saw-toothed" related words >
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- barbed,
- battlemented,
- bicuspid,
- chopped,
- clawed,
- cornuted,
- crenate,
- crenated,
- crenellated,
- crenulate,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- dental,
- dentate,
- dentated,
- dentiform,
- dentoid,
- digital,
- digitate,
- digitated,
- embrasured,
- erose,
- fanged,
- fingered,
- gashed,
- hispid,
- horned,
- horny,
- incised,
- indented,
- jagged,
- jaggy,
- jawed,
- lacerate,
- lacerated,
- molar,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nicked,
- notched,
- odontoid,
- pointed,
- prehensile,
- pronged,
- raptorial,
- saw-toothed,
- sawlike,
- scalloped,
- scored,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- serrulated,
- sharp-pointed,
- snaggle-toothed,
- snaggled,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- taloned,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- tined,
- toothlike,
- toothy,
- tusked,
- unbated
- horny
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- having horns or hornlike projections; "horny coral"; "horny (or horned) frog" related words >
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- acicular,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- barbed,
- bawdy,
- bony,
- carnal,
- cement,
- cemental,
- clitoromaniacal,
- concrete,
- concupiscent,
- corneous,
- cornuted,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- dense,
- diamondlike,
- dirty,
- dure,
- ejaculatory,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fleshly,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- goatish,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardhearted,
- hispid,
- horned,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- iron-hard,
- ironlike,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lapideous,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- lubricious,
- lustful,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- mucronate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obdurate,
- obscene,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- osseous,
- passionate,
- pointed,
- priapic,
- pronged,
- prurient,
- randy,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- sensual,
- sex-starved,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- sharp-pointed,
- solid,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- steamy,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- tined,
- toothed,
- tough,
- unbated,
- unsatisfied
- pointed
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- direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction"
- having a point related words >
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- acanthoid,
- acanthous,
- accented,
- accentuated,
- acicular,
- aciform,
- acuate,
- aculeate,
- aculeiform,
- acuminate,
- acute,
- akimbo,
- allegorical,
- angular,
- aphoristic,
- apiculate,
- aposiopestic,
- arresting,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- barbed,
- bent,
- biting,
- brief,
- brilliant,
- brusque,
- clever,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- conspicuous,
- contracted,
- cornered,
- cornuted,
- crisp,
- crooked,
- crotched,
- curt,
- cusped,
- cuspidate,
- cut,
- cutting,
- decided,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- docked,
- droll,
- elliptic,
- emphasized,
- emphatic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facetious,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forked,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- funny,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gnomic,
- hebetate,
- hispid,
- hooked,
- horned,
- horny,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- in red letters,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- italicized,
- jagged,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- knee-shaped,
- laconic,
- marked,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mordant,
- mucronate,
- muricate,
- needle-pointed,
- needle-sharp,
- nimble-witted,
- outstanding,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointy,
- positive,
- pregnant,
- prominent,
- pronged,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- punctuated,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- rapier-like,
- readable,
- referential,
- remarkable,
- reserved,
- salient,
- salt,
- salty,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- scintillating,
- sententious,
- serrate,
- serrated,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- sharp-pointed,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- signal,
- significant,
- significative,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- spiculate,
- spiked,
- spiky,
- spined,
- spinous,
- spiny,
- sprightly,
- starred,
- stressed,
- striking,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tapered,
- tapering,
- telling,
- terse,
- tight,
- tined,
- to the point,
- toothed,
- transferred,
- trenchant,
- truncated,
- unbated,
- underlined,
- underscored,
- unmistakable,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- zigzag
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