PUNGENT
\pˈʌnd͡ʒənt], \pˈʌndʒənt], \p_ˈʌ_n_dʒ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of PUNGENT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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Pungency.
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Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
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Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
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Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.
By Oddity Software
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Stinging, pricking, or biting; as, a pungent acid; piercing; keen; sarcastic; caustic; as, pungent speech.
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Pungently.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Same etymon. Pain is said to be pungent, when it seems as if a pointed instrument were forced into the suffering part.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
