英语词汇“poignant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	poignant
释义	poi·gnant \-nt\ adjective Etymology: Middle English pugnaunt, poinaunt, from Middle French poignant, present participle of poindre to prick, pierce, sting, from Latin pungere — more at pungent 1. a. archaic : sharp and piquant to the taste b. : pungent and strongly pervasive in odor < a poignant perfume, soft and languorous — Kenneth Roberts > 2. a. (1) : painfully sharp with regard to the feelings : piercing, keen < poignant grief > < with a look of poignant regret on his face — Bram Stoker > (2) : very moving : deeply affecting : touching < the poignant spectacle of a little child without a home > < so many poignant memories — Havelock Ellis > b. (1) : stinging, cutting < his satire is particularly poignant — F.M.Godfrey > < poignant sarcasm — Benjamin Disraeli > (2) : incisive, penetrating < are revealed with poignant clarity — Joseph Frank > (3) : making a strong impression : striking < a poignant paradox — J.T.Clark > < become both convincing and poignant to us — David Cecil > c. : urgent, pressing, acute < the more poignant problems of human existence — M.R.Cohen > 3. obsolete : having a physically sharp point 4. a. : keenly stimulating or pleasurable to the mind or feelings < a more poignant felicity than he had yet experienced — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < ecstasy too poignant to endure — Saturday Review > < this kind of day … had a more poignant loveliness — Jan Struther > b. : deft and to the point < her illustrations were apposite and poignant — Charles Lamb > : apt, pointed < makes some brief but poignant observations — G.A.Panichas > Synonyms: see moving, pungent
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