Word family noun point pointer pointlessness adjective pointed pointy pointless verb point adverb pointlessly pointedly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpointypoint‧y /ˈpɔɪnti/ adjective informal pointed(1)Examples from the Corpus
pointy• I loved the pointy beard and razor-sharp eyes, the pearl earring fixed in his left lobe.• He had shoulder-length, gleaming black ringlets of hair, a pointy beard, and wore a tailcoat.• The devil riding my back dug his hard pointy heels into my flesh, but I stayed my ground.• In the Southwest, I figured that when the plants started looking too pointy I was heading into the desert.• The light seemed to stab at me with some sort of pointy object.• I was a girl who liked my mountains pointy, so I foolishly and ignorantly snubbed the Cairngorms.• He was so pointy that I feared he would leave his wooden perch and anoint my head with his beak. 