Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pungent character or quality; the power of sharply affecting the taste or smell; keenness; sharpness; tartness; causticity.
- noun Synonyms Poignancy, acridness, pointedness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy.
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- noun The state of being
pungent . - noun A
foul odor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- noun a strong odor or taste property
Etymologies
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Examples
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They and a handful of other spices—ginger, mustard, horseradish, wasabi—are especially valued for a quality often called hotness, but best called pungency: neither a taste nor a smell, but a general feeling of irritation that verges on pain.
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They and a handful of other spices—ginger, mustard, horseradish, wasabi—are especially valued for a quality often called hotness, but best called pungency: neither a taste nor a smell, but a general feeling of irritation that verges on pain.
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This keeps the spice from scorching; scorched Sichuan peppercorns have an acrid, bitter pungency which is less than salutary.
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Through that view-medium of misfortuneof a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature deathwe view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burnss were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication.
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Through that view-medium of misfortune -- of a noble spirit in low environments, and of a squalid and premature death -- we view the undoubted facts, (giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns's were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication.
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(giving, as we read them now, a sad kind of pungency,) that Burns's were, before all else, the lyrics of illicit loves and carousing intoxication.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
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Written with a pungency largely absent in Indian public discourse, the cables capture with startling verisimilitude the freewheeling political culture of the world's largest democracy and second-fastest growing major economy.
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I recently heard a commencement speech by critic James Wood in which he lamented the loss of pungency from our lives—so much is now sanitized or hidden away from the public eye—and exhorted would-be writers to search deep in their imaginations for the primary details that animate prose and poetry.
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To balance out its pungency, eat some breath-freshening parsley.
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Mustard greens, which are exactly in same family, has much, much more pungency, so it is kind of a spectrum of strengths.
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