Usually means: Sharp or directed at end.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pointed:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pointed: Merriam-Webster
  3. pointed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pointed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pointed: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pointed: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pointed, pointed: Wordnik
  8. pointed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pointed: Wiktionary
  10. pointed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pointed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pointed: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pointed, pointed: Dictionary.com
  14. pointed: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pointed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pointed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pointed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pointed: Rhymezone
  19. Pointed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pointed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pointed: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pointed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pointed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pointed: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointed: Legal dictionary
  2. pointed: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointed: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pointed: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointed: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
adjective:  (comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
adjective:  (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
adjective:  (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.
adjective:  (topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
adjective:  (dated, of a time) precise, on the dot.

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