adjective Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
adjective In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
The Siamese is a pointed breed of cat.
adjective Directed negatively at a person or topic.
a pointed remark
adjective 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.