pointed

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of point

adj

1. (comparable)Sharp, barbed; not dull.

   “The warrior brandished a pointed spear.”

2. (in-compounds)Having a certain number of points.

   “a five-pointed star”

3. (comparable)Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
4. (not-comparable)In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.

   “The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.”

5. (comparable)Directed negatively at a person or topic.

   “a pointed remark”

   “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.”

6. 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.

   “The class of all pointed spaces forms a category - Top_• - with basepoint preserving continuous maps as morphisms.”

7. (dated)precise, on the dot.

   “With their usual punctuality, the boys arrive at the pointed hour of three.”