pointed

1. (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.Examples: "The warrior brandished a pointed spear."Synonyms: pointy, sharpcomparable

2. (in combination) Having a certain amount of points.Examples: "a five-pointed star"in-compounds

3. (comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.comparable

4. (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.Examples: "The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat."not-comparable

5. (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.Examples: "Attention has been called to the report in a New-York paper, which has been made the subject of pointed comment […]"; "After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday."; "President Taft to-day had a pointed comment for the "new nationalism" that his predecessor has been launching in the West."comparable

6. (topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.Examples: "The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top_• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms."