Synonyms for armed

Synonyms for (adj) armed

Synonyms: armed

Definition: (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

Usage: armed robbery

Similar words: equipped, weaponed

Definition: carrying weapons


Similar words: light-armed

Definition: armed with light equipment and weapons

Usage: a light-armed brigade


Similar words: militarised, militarized

Definition: issued military arms


Synonyms: armed

Definition: (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

Similar words: barbed, barbellate, thorny, setaceous, setose, spiny, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly

Definition: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Usage: a horse with a short bristly mane; bristly shrubs; burred fruits; setaceous whiskers


Similar words: bristlelike

Definition: resembling a bristle


Similar words: brushlike

Definition: resembling a brush

Usage: brushlike blue blooms


Similar words: thistlelike

Definition: resembling a thistle


Similar words: taloned, clawed

Definition: (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons


Synonyms: armed

Definition: having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination

Usage: the many-armed goddess Shiva

Similar words: armlike

Definition: resembling an arm


Similar words: brachiate

Definition: having arms or armlike appendages


Similar words: long-armed

Definition: having relatively long arms


Similar words: one-armed

Definition: having one arm

Usage: a one-armed veteran


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