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What is the adjective for needlesticks?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb needle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

needleless
  1. Without a needle or needles (especially hypodermic needles).
  2. Examples:
      3. “Once you have mastered all the steps leading up to the actual needle stick, you may proceed with a needleless syringe.”
      “Imagine a needleless syringe bigger than the one used to give you a flu shot.”
      “All too often, clinicians themselves don't know that there is a needleless alternative.”
needled
  1. Covered or armored with needles.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pained, upset, hurt, angry, piqued, annoyed, disgruntled, displeased, aggrieved, irritated, riled, resentful, distressed, vexed, irked, offended, peeved, nettled, angered, cross, indignant, affronted, exasperated, miffed, sore, narked, stung, unhappy, wounded, aggravated, galled, huffy, ruffled, injured, insulted, troubled, eggy, reproachful, anguished, rattled, miffy, snuffy, worried, disappointed, put out, cheesed off, in a huff, teed off, in high dudgeon, fed up … more
needlelike
  1. Resembling a needle in shape
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thin, slender, hairline, slim, narrow, skinny, fine, ultrathin, paper-thin, slim-jim, slimline, threadlike, small, tenuous, polished, scrawny, bony, lean, attenuated, scraggy, angular, emaciated, gaunt, lanky, gangling, gangly, rawboned, lank, beanpole, starved, beanstalk, meager, reedy, meagre, attenuate, slight, delicate, fragile, twiggy, ethereal, rangy, spindly, puny, spare, skeletal, willowy, undernourished, cadaverous, weedy, wasted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The second tarp covering the cart is dusted with tiny needlelike ice crystals.”
      “The point itself is a massive coral sand bluff that narrows to a reef as it slips needlelike into the sea amid waves and colliding currents.”
      “Morphine sulfate is a white, odourless crystalline powder or needlelike crystals.”
needling
  1. present participle of needle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, annoying, irritating, exasperating, angering, irking, vexing, inflaming, putting out, nettling, provoking, incensing, infuriating, maddening, rubbing up the wrong way, aggravating, peeving, miffing, riling, getting to, hacking off, giving someone the hump, driving mad, driving crazy, driving nuts, making someone see red, winding up, agitating, bothering, bugging, narking, getting across, teeing off, perturbing, ticking off, displeasing, eating, grating, ruffling, burning up, chafing, disturbing, frustrating, enraging, galling, firing up, upsetting, getting in someone's hair, getting on someone's nerves, getting on someone's tits … more
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