barbed

Meanings

Verb

• provide with barbs
  • "barbed wire"
• simple past and past participle of barb

Adjective Satellite

• capable of wounding
  • "a barbed compliment"
• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Adj

• Having barbs.
• Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
• Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
• Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
• Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
• Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

Synonyms

barb, barbellate, biting, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, mordacious, nipping, prickly, pungent, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny