sharpness

Roget category 253

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#253. Sharpness

noun

sharpness etc. adj. — acuity, acumination^† — spinosity^†.
point, spike, spine, spicule [Biol.], spiculum^† — needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin — prick, prickle — spur, rowel, barb — spit, cusp — horn, antler — snag — tag thorn, bristle — Adam's needle^†, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca.
nib, tooth, tusk — spoke, cog, ratchet.
crag, crest, arete [Fr.], cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille^† — spire, pyramid, steeple.
beard, chevaux de frise [Fr.], porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle — comb — awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed^†, cleavers, clivers^†, goose, grass, hairif^†, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel^†, heckle.
wedge — knife edge, cutting edge — blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor — scalpel — bistoury^†, lancet — plowshare, coulter, colter^† — hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill — billhook, cleaver, cutter — scythe, sickle — scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter — sword etc. (arms) 727 — bodkin etc. (perforator) 262 — belduque^†, bowie knife^†, paring knife — bushwhacker [U.S.] — drawing knife, drawing shave — microtome [Micro.] — chisel, screwdriver blade — flint blade — guillotine.
sharpener, hone, strop — grindstone, whetstone — novaculite^† — steel, emery.

verb

be sharp etc. adj. — taper to a point — bristle with.
render sharp etc. adj. — sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate^†, set, strop, grind — chip (flint). cut etc. (sunder) 44.

adjective

sharp, keen — acute — acicular, aciform^† — aculeated^†, acuminated^† — pointed — tapering — conical, pyramidal — mucronate^†, mucronated^† — spindle shaped, needle shaped — spiked, spiky, ensiform^†, peaked, salient — cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated^† — cornute^†, cornuted^†, cornicultate^† — prickly — spiny, spinous^†, spicular — thorny, bristling, muricated^†, pectinated^†, studded, thistly, briary^† — craggy etc. (rough) 256 — snaggy, digitated^†, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.] — dentiform^†, denticulated — toothed — odontoid^† — starlike — stellated^†, stelliform^† — sagittate^†, sagittiform^† — arrowheaded^† — arrowy^†, barbed, spurred.
acinaciform — apiculate^†, apiculated^† — aristate^†, awned, awny^†, bearded, calamiform^†, cone-shaped, coniform^†, crestate^†, echinate^†, gladiate^† — lanceolate^†, lanciform — awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped — setarious^†, spinuliferous^†, subulate^†, tetrahedral, xiphoid^†.
cutting — sharp edged, knife edged — sharp as a razor, keen as a razor — sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack — sharpened etc. v. — set

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