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/pˈəndʒənt/ Listen

adjective

Pungent adj.

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. "Pungent radish biting infant's tongue." "The pungent grains of titillating dust."

Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. "With pungent pains on every side." "His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation."

(Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

Synonyms: Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging.

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"Pungent" Quotes from Famous Books

... is attested and enforced in the correspondence with Dr. Anton Dohrn, which begins this year. Genial, enthusiastic, as pungent as he was eager in conversation, the future founder of the Marine Biological Station at Naples, on his first visit to England, made my father's acquaintance by accepting his invitation to stay with ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... crucibles and the strange implements lying on the table as the things employed by dabblers in magic lore, whilst the great sullen wood and charcoal fire, which illumined the place with a dull red glow, was all in keeping with the nature of the occupations carried on there, as was the strange pungent ...

— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green

... characteristics in different localities. It is usually heavier in the shallow wells than in those that are deeper. Ordinarily it is of a greenish hue, that changes to a reddish as the oil becomes lighter and more evaporative. It is all characterized by a strong and pungent odor peculiar to itself. The gravity of the various kinds of oil is ascertained by the oleometer. The lighter oils are found on Oil Creek, and are about 40 deg. to 46 deg. Baume; at Franklin, from 30 deg. to ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various

... naturally as jewels on a king's robe, and be as little thought of for their separate value. To be chosen by John, would separate a kitchen-wench from the rest of the world. And Miss Hale was not so bad. If she had been a Milton lass, Mrs. Thornton would have positively liked her. She was pungent, and had taste, and spirit, and flavour in her. True, she was sadly prejudiced, and very ignorant; but that was to be expected from her southern breeding. A strange sort of mortified comparison of Fanny with her, went on in Mrs. Thornton's mind; and for once she spoke ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... a winged insect over the strip of corduroy road, and a minute later the pungent odour of the ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

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