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barbed

/bɑː(ɹ)bd/adjective1 syllable

Barbed means: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc..

Synonyms for barbed18

adjective, as in having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny, armed

adjective, as in capable of wounding

biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious, sarcastic

What does barbed mean?2

adjective

1

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.“a horse with a short bristly mane”

2

capable of wounding“a barbed compliment”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Barbed in a sentence

  • The tall, curved fence was adorned with barbed wire, for extra measure.swolesuki
  • To get there, we had to jump over a massive barbed wire fence.ddnktr
  • Lukas pushed himself through the barbed wire, getting injured.Amastan
  • The building is surrounded by a barbed wire fence.Hybrid
  • My coat got caught on a barb on the barbed wire.zumley
  • Karl found a piece of barbed wire about five feet long in his garden.Amastan
  • We could see barbed wire fences and guard towers.CK
  • Hungary is securing its border with barbed wire.sundown

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.