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Antonyms for pungent
ˈpʌn dʒəntpun·gent
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term pungent.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
pungent
Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.
Antonyms:
dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweetSynonyms:
acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, savage, sharp, sour, stinging, tart, vinegarish, virulent
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Princeton's WordNet
pungent, acridadjective
strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"
"the acrid smell of burning rubber"
Antonyms:
unsarcastic, tastelessSynonyms:
caustic, mordacious, acrid, vitriolic, acid, barbed, sulphurous, biting, bitter, virulent, blistering, acerbic, sulfurous, acerb, nippingbarbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordaciousadjective
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Antonyms:
unsarcastic, tastelessSynonyms:
briary, nipping, prickly, barbed, setose, mordacious, snappy, crisp, burred, nippy, bristly, barbellate, setaceous, briery, thorny, acrid, burry, biting, bitter, spiny, bristled, frosty
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How to use pungent in a sentence?
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Marigold flowers are used for Day of the Dead because of their pungent smell. It's supposed to attract the spirits back on this one day they are allowed to return to visit family and friend.
One was holding the door, the other one with [ screams of profanities ] threw a bottle with a yellow liquid with a strong pungent chemical smell.
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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