pointed > define

verb

• Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.
  • usage: "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents"
  • synonyms: indicate, point, designate, show
• Be oriented.
  • usage: "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward"
  • synonyms: orient, point
• Direct into a position for use.
  • usage: "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
  • synonyms: charge, level, point
• Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
  • synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Be a signal for or a symptom of.
  • usage: "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"
  • synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
• Sail close to the wind.
  • synonyms: luff, point
• Mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics.
  • synonyms: point
• Mark with diacritics.
  • usage: "point the letter"
  • synonyms: point
• Mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes.
  • synonyms: point
• Be positionable in a specified manner.
  • usage: "The gun points with ease"
  • synonyms: point
• Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
  • usage: "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
  • synonyms: target, aim, place, direct, point
• Indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle.
  • usage: "the dog pointed the dead duck"
  • synonyms: point
• Give a point to.
  • usage: "The candles are tapered"
  • synonyms: sharpen, taper, point
• Repair the joints of bricks.
  • usage: "point a chimney"
  • synonyms: point, repoint

adjective

• Having a point.
• Direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant.
  • usage: "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction"

• (a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.
• (a.) Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Point.