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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

... thing, identical with that under his previous masters. The single other difference was that instead of irritating silence, these men unwittingly soothed him with their talk and swift exchange of jokes. Thus the hours passed, until noon came, when, with his bridle and saddle removed, and pungent odors of savory cooking tickling his nostrils, he received the privilege of grazing over the whole desert unhobbled and untethered. But this, liberal as it seemed, brought him nothing of the nourishment ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

... voluptuary in every sense, craved a change of pleasure. He was never satisfied long with one, however pungent. He felt it as a relief when Angelique went off like a laughing sprite upon the arm of De Pean. "I am glad to get rid of the women sometimes, and feel like a man," he said to Cadet, who sat drinking and ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... of the gale dealt the tent a broad-handed slap as it hurtled past, and the sleet rat-tat-tatted with snappy spite against the thin canvas. The smoke, smothered in its exit, drove back through the fire- box door, carrying with it the pungent odor of green spruce. ...

— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... ought to have. Why shouldn't I act within my rights, threaten to 'take proceedings'? I meditated for a space on the idea, and then returned to the Science Library and wrote him a very considerable and occasionally pungent letter. ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... general belief that the lower animals are less 554:30 sickly than those possessing higher organiza- tions, especially those of the human form. This would indicate that there is less disease in propor- 555:1 tion as the force of mortal mind is less pungent or sensi- tive, and that health attends the absence of mortal mind. 555:3 A fair conclusion from this might be, that it is the human belief, and not the divine arbitrament, which brings the physical organism under the yoke ...

— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

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