What does barbed mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective

    capable of wounding

    "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

  2. barbed, 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"

Wiktionary

  1. barbedadjective

    Having barbs

  2. barbedadjective

    Bearded (also applied to roses).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Barbedparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from to barb.

    His glittering armour he will command to rust,
    His barbed steeds to stables. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

    If I conjecture right, no drizzling show’r,
    But rattling storm of arrows barb ’d with fire. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. vi. l. 544.

ChatGPT

  1. barbed

    Barbed refers to something that is sharp or pointed, often in a way that is intended to inflict harm or damage. This term is commonly used to describe a form of security or protection, such as barbed wire or a barbed arrow. It can also be used metaphorically to refer to hurtful or cutting words or remarks.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Barbed

    of Barb

  2. Barbedadjective

    accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)

  3. Barbedadjective

    furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of barbed in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of barbed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of barbed in a Sentence

  1. Greg Hare:

    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.

  2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

    Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  3. Hannah Pik-Goslar:

    I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

  4. Scott C. Holstad:

    she said i want you to meet him you'll like him really yeah i thought like car crash broken glass rusty razored underwear barbed wire cheer acid fear like walking down normandie naked nightly like tiger claws 'n earthquake falls i'll really relish meeting 'm.

  5. Ronald Reagan:

    Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

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