barbed

Synonyms for barbed

adj cutting

adjective. thorny

adjective. ragged, notched

late 15c., "to clip, mow;" see barb (n.). Meaning "to fit or furnish with barbs" is from 1610s. Related: Barbed; barbing.

The injustice of it was like a barbed and poisoned arrow in his heart.

Why should you put up all this barbed wire between yourself and your friends?

Lines of trenches and coils of barbed wire arrest your attention.

Where is that armor of distrust in which you were to resist the barbed arrow of the enchantress?

That same book,—how it rankled, like a barbed arrow, in his side!

"You can see the German barbed wire in front of their trenches," said Leon excitedly.

It was just as they were parting that he sent his barbed shot into Joyce.

With a cry of pain and rage it tore the barbed shaft from its bleeding side and rushed at him.

These barbed weapons would tear their way through the birch bark of the canoes as if they were but sheets of brown paper.

We hear all the Swiss border is to be protected by barbed wire.