pungent

[PunĀ·gent]

Use pungent to describe a taste or smell that gives a sharp sensation. "What is that pungent odor?" is a polite way of suggesting that someone in the room has BO.

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Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

Adjective
sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell; "tasting the pungent wood sorrel"; "pungent curry"; "a pungent smell of burning sulfur"

Adjective S.
capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"


v. t.
Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

v. t.
Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

v. t.
Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.


Pungent

Pun"gent , a. [L. pungens, -entis, p. pr. of pungere, punctum, to prick. Cf. Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, n., Puncheon, Punctilio, Punt, v. t.] 1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
Pungent radish biting infant's tongue.
The pungent grains of titillating dust.
2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
With pungent pains on every side.
His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation.
3. (Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. Syn. -- Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging.

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

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