Pungent

a.	1.	Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. - Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. - Pope.
	2.	Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. With pungent pains on every side. - Swift. His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation. - J. R. Green.
	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" Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping

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