Meaning
- (verb) (sometimes figurative) To make sharp. “to sharpen a pencil or a knife or a musical note”
- (verb) To become sharp.
- (adjective) Having a sharp point or edge. “a sharpened knife”
Letter breakdown
- Sharpened contains 9 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 6 consonant(s).
- It uses 8 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 3.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 15.
Opposites
Words from these letters
- adheres
- endears
- hardens
- headers
- panders
- peahens
- phrased
- sharped
- sharpen
- sheared
- speared
- spender
- adhere
- denser
- drapes
- earned
- endear
- erased
- harden
- harped
- header
- heaped
- hearse
- herpes
- neared
- padres
- pander
- parsed
- peahen
- phased
- phrase
- preens
- rasped
- reaped
- resend
- sander
- seared
- sender
- serape
- seraph
- shaped
- shared
- snared
- spared
- sphere
- spread
- spreed
- ashed
- ashen
- aspen
- dares
- darns
- deans
- dears
- deeps
- deers
- dense
- drape
- earns
Connected words
Other 9-letter words
- aardvarks
- abandoned
- abasement
- abatement
- abattoirs
- abdicated
- abdicates
- abdominal
- abductees
- abducting
- abduction
- abductors
- abhorrent
- abhorring
- abilities
- ablatives
- ablutions
- abnegated
Words starting with SHA
- shabbier
- shabbiest
- shabbily
- shabbiness
- shabby
- shack
- shackle
- shackled
- shackles
- shackling
- shacks
- shad
- shade
- shaded
- shades
- shadier
- shadiest
- shadiness
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Words ending with NED
Reader questions
What does Sharpened mean?
(sometimes figurative) To make sharp.
How many letters are in Sharpened?
Sharpened has 9 letters.
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