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Synonyms for barbed
bɑrbdbarbed
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Princeton's WordNet
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Synonyms:
briary, nipping, prickly, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, pungent, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, biting, bitter, spiny, bristled, frostyAntonyms:
unsarcastic, unarmedbarbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thornyadjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
"a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
Synonyms:
briary, nipping, prickly, setose, waspish, mordacious, pungent, burred, spinous, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, burry, biting, splenetic, spiny, bristledAntonyms:
unsarcastic, unarmed
Dictionary of English Synonymes
barbedadjective
Synonyms:
beardedbarbedadjective
Synonyms:
clad in armor
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "barbed":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#10079 | bitter | |
#11793 | crisp | |
#18316 | biting | |
#27777 | frosty | |
#33779 | barbed | |
#38411 | snappy | |
#41099 | prickly | |
#47297 | spiny | |
#48883 | thorny | |
#50552 | pungent | |
#91935 | nipping | |
#96952 | acrid | |
#106653 | burry | |
#114713 | bristly | |
#116969 | bristled | |
#117029 | nippy | |
#202729 | spinous | |
#326433 | waspish |
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Children across America have endured an extremely challenging year, and D.C. children in particular have not only endured the coronavirus pandemic but now the militarization of their city, with the hostile symbols of fences and barbed wire. Sledding is a simple, childhood thrill. It is the least we can allow for our resilient children this winter season.
You saw that barbed wire going up. That barbed wire -- yes sir, we have barbed wire going up. Because you know what ? We're not letting these people invade our country.
We need Democrat votes to have a wall, now, if we don't get it, will I get it done another way ? I might get it done another way. There are other potential ways that I can do it. You saw what we did with the military, with the barbed wire and the fencing, and various other things.
While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch.
The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.
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