Word Meanings - PIERCING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. "Piercing eloquence." Shak. -- Pier"cing*ly, adv. -- Pier"cing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PIERCING)

• Acute
• Pointed
• penetrating
• sagacious
• perspicacious
• keen
• astute
• piercing
• sharp
• shrewd
• keen-sighted
• severe
• distressing
• Biting
• Pungent
• censorious
• gnawing
• sarcastic
• sardonic
• trenchant
• Crucial
• Searching
• probing
• discriminating
• critical
• Cutting
• Sharp
• biting
• mordant
• bitter
• provoking
• stinging
• exasperating
• satirical
• disappointing
• cruel
• Pricking
• acrid
• stimulating
• caustic
• piquant

Related words: (words related to PIERCING)

• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• STINGBULL
  The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• PROBACY
  Proof; trial. Chaucer.
• PROBATION
  1. The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach. Jer. Taylor. 2. Any proceeding designed
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• PROBOSCIS
  A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. Note: The proboscis of an elephant is a flexible muscular elongation of the nose.
• PROBOSCIDIFERA
  An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• PROBATOR
  One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence. (more info) 1. An examiner; an approver. Maydman.
• PROBE
  1. To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. 2. Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. Dryden. The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown. Hallam.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• BITHEISM
  Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
  A horse that has the habit of cribbing.