Adjective barbed has 2 senses
- barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious - capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Antonym: unsarcastic (indirect, via sarcastic)
- barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny - 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"
Antonym: unarmed (indirect, via armed)
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Verb barb has 2 senses
- barb - provide with barbs; "barbed wire"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- barb - provide with barbs; "barbed wire"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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