a. | 1. | Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; |
2. | Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. | |
3. | (Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. |
Adj. | 1. | pungent - sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell; "tasting the pungent wood sorrel"; "pungent curry"; "a pungent smell of burning sulfur" Antonyms: bland - lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics; "a bland pudding"; "a bland diet for her irritated stomach" |
2. | pungent - capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" |