Definition of Pungent

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Pungent

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

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Pungent Quotations

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
John Dryden

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau

Pungent Translations

pungent in German is scharf, stechend
pungent in Swedish is skarp, amper

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