Another word for pungent
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Adjective
Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a strong and often harsh sensation
- Arousing deep emotion, especially pity or sorrow; touching:
- Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings:
- Physically painful:
- Having the flavor, aroma, or quality of spice.
- Piquant; zesty:
- Producing or abounding in spices.
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy.
- Appealingly provocative; charming:
- Causing hurt feelings; stinging:
So sharp as to cause mental pain
- Of, similar to, or derived from a vitriol.
- Bitterly scathing; caustic:
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant:
- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Forceful and clear; penetrating:
- Caustic; cutting:
- Distinct; clear-cut:
- Bitingly critical or satiric:
- Dashing; pelting:
- Brilliant; intense:
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
- Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
- Harmful or painful; injurious.
- Bitingly sarcastic:
- Incisive and trenchant:
- Bitingly painful.
- Given to biting; biting.
- Caustic; sarcastic.
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion:
- Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
- Spitefully sarcastic:
- Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
- Sarcastic or cutting; biting:
- Given to making caustic remarks:
- Causing a stinging sensation; nipping:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
- Of or relating to insects and certain other animals that wound the skin with a sting, mouthparts, or fangs.
- Tending to draw together or constrict tissues; styptic.
- Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe:
- A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions.
- Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell.
- Caustic in language or tone:
- Acid.
- Tending to form an acid.
- Any of a class of substances whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals to form salts.
- A substance that yields hydrogen ions when dissolved in water.
- A substance that can act as a proton donor.
- Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
- Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
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Another word for pungent
Modifier
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- Having a sharp pungent taste; sour.
- Sharp or bitter in tone or meaning; cutting.
- Any of a class of substances whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a sour taste, the ability to turn blue litmus red, and the ability to react with bases and certain metals to form salts.
- A substance that yields hydrogen ions when dissolved in water.
- A substance that can act as a proton donor.
- Having a thin edge or a fine point suitable for or capable of cutting or piercing.
- Having clear form and detail:
- Terminating in an edge or a point:
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