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peaked
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective peaked has 2 senses
- peaked(s = adj.all) ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell - somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
- peaked(s = adj.all) Array - having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills"
CIDE DICTIONARY
peaked, a.
- Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. [1913 Webster]
- Sickly; not robust. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
peaked
acicular, acuminate, acute, attenuated, cachectic, cadaverous, capped, corpselike, crested, crowned, cuspidate, debilitated, drained, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, enervated, exhausted, failing, feeble, frail, haggard, headed, healthless, hollow-eyed, in poor health, infirm, invalid, jejune, languishing, marantic, marasmic, moribund, pale, peaking, peaky, pinched, plumed, poor, puny, reduced, reduced in health, run-down, sharp, shriveled, sick, sickly, skeletal, starved, starveling, tabetic, tabid, tipped, topped, underfed, undernourished, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wasted, weakened, weakly, weazeny, with low resistance, withered, wizened, wraithlikeROGET THESAURUS
peaked
Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.
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