Read the dictionary definition of barbed. All definitions for this word.
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
1. a horse with a short bristly mane
2. bristly shrubs
3. burred fruits
4. setaceous whiskers
2. capable of wounding
1. a barbed compliment
2. a biting aphorism
3. pungent satire