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Piquant synonyms

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charming
Pleasant, charismatic
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  1. Pleasant, charismatic
  2. Delightful in a playful way which avoids responsibility or seriousness, as if attracting through a magical charm
  3. Attractive; fascinating; delightful
sparkling
Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
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  1. Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
  2. Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
tangy
Having a tang, or pleasantly sharp flavor
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  1. Having a tang, or pleasantly sharp flavor
spicy
Slightly scandalous; risqué:
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  1. Slightly scandalous; risqué:
  2. Having the flavor or aroma of spice; fragrant, aromatic, or pungent
  3. Piquant; zesty:
pungent
Pointed:
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  1. Pointed:
  2. To the point; sharp:
  3. Producing a sharp sensation of taste or smell; acrid
sharp
Sudden and brilliant or dazzling:
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  1. Sudden and brilliant or dazzling:
  2. Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
  3. Fierce or impetuous; violent:
spicy
Piquant or zestful; lively, interesting, etc.
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  1. Piquant or zestful; lively, interesting, etc.
  2. Having the flavor or aroma of spice; fragrant, aromatic, or pungent
  3. Slightly scandalous; risqué:
poignant
(Archaic) Sharp or sour to the taste; piquant.
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  1. (Archaic) Sharp or sour to the taste; piquant.
  2. Sharp, biting, penetrating, pointed, etc.
  3. Sharp or pungent to the smell.
Find another word for piquant. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for piquant, like: charming, sparkling, enticing, tangy, zesty, spicy, exciting, interesting, delicious, savory and pungent.

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  • It was the most piquant feature of his life that he, one of the gilded youth, a connoisseur in wines, and a learned man to boot, had become agitator and the champion of the working man.

  • piquant tomato sauce on a bed of pasta.

  • It is desultory to a degree; it is a base libel on religion and history; it differs from its model Ariosto in being, not, as Ariosto is, a mixture of romance and burlesque, but a sometimes tedious tissue of burlesque pure and simple; and it is exposed to the objection - often and justly urged - that much of its fun depends simply on the fact that there were and are many people who believe enough in Christianity to make its jokes give pain to them and to make their disgust at such jokes piquant to others.

  • The last twelve or fifteen years of his life were spent in Paris, whence he supplied the Globe with a series of piquant letters on the incidents of the day.

  • The piquant comments of his platonic friend, Mademoiselle de Hautefort, upon Richelieu were relished by the king until he was informed of others said to have been made by her upon himself.

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