barbed
adjective
1. capable of wounding
- a barbed compliment
Similar word(s): sarcastic, biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Similar word(s): armed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of barb