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At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
Eleanor Clift

Meaning of "pointed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POINTED

pointed  [ˈpɔɪntɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POINTED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pointed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POINTED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pointed in the English dictionary

The first definition of pointed in the dictionary is having a point. Other definition of pointed is cutting or incisive. Pointed is also obviously directed at or intended for a particular person or aspect.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POINTED


acquainted
əˈkweɪntɪd
anointed
əˈnɔɪntɪd
appointed
əˈpɔɪntɪd
disappointed
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd
disjointed
dɪsˈdʒɔɪntɪd
hand-painted
ˈhændˌpeɪntɪd
hand-printed
ˈhændˌprɪntɪd
imprinted
ɪmˈprɪntɪd
jointed
ˈdʒɔɪntɪd
lap-jointed
ˈlæpˌdʒɔɪntɪd
minted
ˈmɪntɪd
painted
ˈpeɪntɪd
printed
ˈprɪntɪd
sainted
ˈseɪntɪd
screen-printed
ˈskriːnprɪntɪd
tainted
ˈteɪntɪd
tinted
ˈtɪntɪd
unappointed
ˌʌnəˈpɔɪntɪd
unpointed
ʌnˈpɔɪntɪd
unprinted
ʌnˈprɪntɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POINTED

point-and-click
point-and-shoot
point-blank
point-by-point
point-device
point-of-sale terminal
point-to-point
pointable
pointe
Pointe-Noire
pointed arch
pointel
pointelle
pointer
Pointers
pointille
pointillism
pointillisme
pointillist
pointilliste

WORDS THAT END LIKE POINTED

double-jointed
granted
linted
loose-jointed
malimprinted
microprinted
mounted
newly minted
rose-tinted
self-appointed
take for granted
talented
unacquainted
unattainted
undinted
unstinted
unwanted
wanted
well-acquainted
well-appointed

Synonyms and antonyms of pointed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POINTED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pointed» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pointed

Translation of «pointed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POINTED

Find out the translation of pointed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pointed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pointed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

尖的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

puntiagudo
570 millions of speakers

English

pointed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बताया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مدببة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заостренный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pontudo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তীক্ষ্ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pointu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menunjuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spitz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

先のとがった
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뾰족한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nuding
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chua cay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூரான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्मभेदक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

işaretlendi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

appuntito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wskaza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загострений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ascuțit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυτερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skerp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spetsigt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spiss
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pointed

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTED»

The term «pointed» is very widely used and occupies the 8.706 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pointed» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pointed» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pointed

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10 QUOTES WITH «POINTED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pointed.
1
Kenneth Joseph Arrow
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
2
Kevin Barry
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
3
Jolene Blalock
Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.
4
Earl Blumenauer
As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.
5
Kit Bond
I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
6
George Carey
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.
7
Jung Chang
I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.
8
Eleanor Clift
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
9
Kevin Conroy
I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.
10
Herbert Croly
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POINTED»

Discover the use of pointed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pointed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher
For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue.
E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott, Helena Huntington Smith, 2012
2
Every Pointed Star
In Every Pointed Star, David Booth tells the interesting, sometimes funny, oddly moving story of J.D., a gifted football player who goofs his way through high school and expects to do the same in college.
David Booth, 2010
3
Helping your health with pointed pressure therapy
Describes techniques for applying pointed pressure massage to alleviate pain and regulate physical disorders
Roy E. Bean, 1975
4
Hands Pointed Up
Hands Pointed UP is a quick read of 60 inspirational sayings that include the word "up." It includes biblical references and observations that will help you keep a positive attitude.
Mary Ann Van Osdell, 2004
5
Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs
Adopting a psychoanalytic approach, Joseph Church's Transcendent Daughters proposes that the narrator's venture among these people in fact allegorizes an anxious daughter's return to familial origins and dramatizes her reengagement with and ...
Joseph Church, 1994
6
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett. the brook where he had left them to cool. Then we sat awhile longer in peace and quietness on the green banks. As for William, he looked more boyish than ever, and kept a more remote and juvenile sort of silence. Once I ...
Sarah Orne Jewett, 2009
7
Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett. village with their appletrees and bits of garden ground. Presently, as I looked at the pastures beyond, I caught a last glimpse of Mrs. Todd herself, walking slowly in the footpath that led along, following the shore toward the ...
Sarah Orne Jewett, 2012
8
Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned: The Båuståan of Sa°dåi
Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned The Bustan of Sa'di Translated by G. M. Wickens Sa'di's Bustan is one of the best known major moralistic poems in the whole of Persian literature, and this is the first fully annotated English translation of it ...
Saʻdī, 1974
9
New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs
MICHAEL DAVITT BELL EVER since the publication of The Country of the Pointed Firs in 1896, Sarah Orne Jewett has been accorded a fairly consistent place in the American literary canon, although even her most enthusiastic partisans have ...
June Howard, 1994
10
Basic Quiltmaking Techniques for Eight-Pointed Stars
Discusses hand and machine stitching techniques for star patterns and explains how to draw original eight-pointed star designs
Sherry Reis, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POINTED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pointed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Suffield Man Pointed Gun at Wife, Purposely Crashed Car: Police
When police arrived, they found a woman who told them her husband, Christopher Despres, 36, pointed a gun at her head while driving her in ... «NBC Connecticut, Jul 15»
2
Pointed in the Right Direction
The pack with Britain's Chris Froome, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, passes the Eiffel tower during the twenty-first and last stage of ... «Valley News, Jul 15»
3
Gun allegedly pointed at Davis Drive woman incapable of firing …
BRISTOL – The gun recovered in connection with a man charged with pointing it at a woman on Davis Drive over the weekend was a pellet gun ... «Bristol Press, Jul 15»
4
Cops: Hatboro man pointed gun at man, woman
A Hatboro man is charged with aggravated assault stemming from an argument with a couple Friday evening in the parking lot of his apartment ... «The Intelligencer, Jul 15»
5
For Obama, a Kenyan homecoming, and a pointed message
NAIROBI — For nearly seven years, the connection between President Obama and Kenyans has been — in the same way the president has ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
PICTURED: the 18-year-old who pointed a gun in the face of a …
Mr Bruce, aged 71, is a judo black belt and responded to the raid by picking up a baseball bat and hitting Barton across the wrists as he pointed ... «North Devon Journal, Jul 15»
7
When the Louisiana Movie Gunman Pointed His Weapon at These …
What was supposed to be a relaxing night spent watching a funny movie, Trainwreck, quickly derailed into a complete nightmare.​ But this ... «Womans Day, Jul 15»
8
Ohio sheriff: Man pointed gun at deputies, was fatally shot
CINCINNATI – A man killed in a shooting by deputies had pointed a gun at the officers as they responded to a vehicle crash in southwest Ohio, ... «Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Jul 15»
9
Nashua Man Pointed Gun at Mother, Daughter: Police
Police said they learned Linscott pointed a gun at a woman and her 16-year-old daughter, threatening to shoot them. He then fled in a vehicle, ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
10
Lasers pointed at 2 planes on approach to Logan
BOSTON —Lasers were pointed at two airplanes Wednesday night as they approached Boston's Logan International Airport. «WCVB Boston, Jul 15»

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