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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: pungent (0.01189 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to pungent.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: pungent tajam
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: pungent breng-brengan, pedas, sengak
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pungent pungent adj 1: sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell; “tasting the pungent wood sorrel”; “pungent curry”; “a pungent smell of burning sulfur” [ant: bland] 2: capable of wounding; “a barbed compliment”; “a biting aphorism”; “pungent satire” [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, mordacious]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pungent Pungent \Pun"gent\, a. [L. pungens, -entis, p. pr. of pungere, punctum, to prick. Cf. Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, n., Puncheon, Punctilio, Punt, v. t.] 1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. [1913 Webster] Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. --Shenstone. [1913 Webster] The pungent grains of titillating dust. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. [1913 Webster] With pungent pains on every side. --Swift. [1913 Webster] His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. [1913 Webster] Syn: Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging. [1913 Webster]

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