Dictionary Entry
pungent
pungent is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
- 2transitive verb
Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
- 3transitive verb
Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.
- 4adjective
capable of wounding
"a barbed compliment"
"a biting aphorism"
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- 5adjective
strong and sharp
"the pungent taste of radishes"
"the acrid smell of burning rubber"
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