poignant
21POIGNANT — ANTE. adj. Piquant. Il ne s emploie que figurément, et ne se dit que D une douleur physique ou morale qui est forte, vive, pénétrante. Douleur poignante. Une douleur vive et poignante. Remords poignant …
22poignant — adjective /ˈpɔɪ.njənt,ˈpɔɪn.jənt/ a) incisive; penetrating His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...]. b) neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant …
23poignant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. painful, pungent, intense, piercing, sharp, keen, biting. See feeling, pungency. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sharp] Syn. piquant, bitter, acute; see sarcastic . 2. [Touching] Syn. moving, touching,… …
24poignant — adjective making you feel sad or full of pity: I was struck by the poignant contrast between his lively mind and his old frail body. poignancy noun (U) poignantly adverb: The road between Hué and Danang was poignantly named Street without Joy …
25poignant — adjective they read aloud the poignant letters written by the victims children Syn: touching, moving, sad, affecting, pitiful, piteous, pathetic, sorrowful, mournful, wretched, miserable, distressing, heart rending, tearjerking, plaintive, tragic …
26POIGNANT, ANTE — adj. Qui est piquant. Il ne s’emploie que figurément et ne se dit que d’une Douleur physique ou morale qui est forte, vive, pénétrante, qui étreint. Douleur poignante. Une douleur vive et poignante. Remords poignant …
27poignant — Part. prés. poindre …
28poignant — Synonyms and related words: absorbing, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, affecting, afflictive, agitating, agonizing, asperous, astringent, atrocious, barbed, biting, bitter, bleak, blue, caustic, cheerless, comfortless,… …
29poignant — see PUNCTUATION …
30poignant — poign·ant || pɔɪnjÉ™nt adj. piquant, bitter, pungent; sharp witted, keen, eloquent; sharp, pointed, incisive …
