Usually means: Sharp or tapered at end.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word POINTY:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pointy: Merriam-Webster
  3. pointy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pointy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pointy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pointy, pointy: Wordnik
  7. pointy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pointy: Wiktionary
  9. pointy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pointy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pointy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pointy: Dictionary.com
  13. pointy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pointy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. pointy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POINTY: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. p.o.i.n.t.y, pointy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pointy)

▸ adjective:  (informal) Pointed in shape; having a point or points.
▸ adjective:  (programming) In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed arrow symbol ->).
▸ noun:  (informal) Any pointed object.

Similar:
sharp-pointed, piled, pointed, sharpened, poignant, sharp, fitchy, pointlike, keen, beaklike, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, mute

Types:
needle, spike, dagger, awl, gimlet, skewer, more...

Phrases:
pointy hat, pointy head, pointy heads, pointy stick, pointy headed, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, very, long, sharp, real, certain, same, single, small



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Similar:
sharp-pointed, piled, pointed, sharpened, poignant, sharp, fitchy, pointlike, keen, beaklike, more...

Opposite:
blunt, dull, mute

Types:
needle, spike, dagger, awl, gimlet, skewer, more...

Phrases:
pointy hat, pointy head, pointy heads, pointy stick, pointy headed, pointy toed, pointy haired, The Pointy End, Pointy ears, Mexican pointy boots, pointy shoes, fictional dwarf with a pointy hat, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, very, long, sharp, real, certain, same, single, small



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