Word Meanings - PUNGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. Syn. -- Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging. (more info) to prick. Cf. Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, n., Puncheon, 1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste,

Additional info about word: PUNGENT

Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. Syn. -- Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging. (more info) to prick. Cf. Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, n., Puncheon, 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. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope. 2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. With pungent pains on every side. Swift. His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation. J. R. Green.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUNGENT)

• Acrimonious
• Sharp
• biting
• stinging
• pungent
• acrid
• ill-natured
• sarcastic
• Biting
• Pungent
• censorious
• piercing
• gnawing
• sardonic
• trenchant
• Bitter
• Harsh
• sour
• sharp
• tart
• acrimonious
• severe
• sad
• afflictive
• intense
• cutting
• Caustic
• Burning
• mordant
• irritating
• pointed
• Piquant
• lively
• racy
• smart
• stimulating
• keen

Related words: (words related to PUNGENT)

• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• 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.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• STINGBULL
  The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• 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.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• 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.
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• BITHEISM
  Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• BITARTRATE
  A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• 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.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• 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.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• 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.