Synonyms for Poignant

Synonyms for "poignant" (201 found)

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Closest matches (41)

Adjective(4 words)

affecting touching bittersweetdeep emotion

absorbing acerbic acid acidulous acrid acrimonious acute affecting afflictive agitating agonizing asperous astringent atrocious barbed biting bitter bleak blue caustic

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cheerless comfortless corrosive cramping cruel cutting deep deep-felt deepgoing deplorable depressing depressive disastrous discomforting dismal

Noun(2 words)

bewailing bittersweets

Strong matches (60)

dismaying distressful distressing disturbing dolorific dolorogenic dolorousdouble edgeddouble-edged dramatic dreary driving earnest edged effective eloquent emotional escharotic excruciating expressive

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exquisite extreme fierce forceful forcible gnawing grave grievous griping gutsy hard harrowing harsh heartfelt homefelt hurtful hurting imperative impressive incisive indelible intense irritating joyless keen lamentable

Adjective(11 words)

emotional gestureemotional intensityemotional statesendearing evocativeevocative writingexpressive danceheartbreakingheartfelt sceneheartrending incisive

Noun(2 words)

evoking haunting

Verb(1 words)

impacting

Related words (100)

lively melancholy miserable mordacious mordant mournful moving nervousnose ticklingnose-tickling painful paroxysmal pathetic penetrating peppery peppy perturbing pervading piercing piquant

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Determiner(1 words)

most feeling

Adjective(9 words)

movingmoving narrativenostalgic penetrating piercing plaintive sad sharp tearjerking

Noun(3 words)

narrative resonancetouching policytugging

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

emotionality evocativeness insight significance

More specific

5 entries

bittersweet heartbreakingincisive critiquepenetrating analysistouching

Collocations

6 entries

poignant contrastpoignant critiquepoignant momentpoignant portrayalpoignant reminderpoignant scene

Inflections

2 entries

more poignantmost poignant

Derivations

3 entries

poignance poignancy poignantly

similar

2 entries

moving painful

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The eating of delicious food is one of the most intense and poignant pleasures of life.

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The incident was so poignant.

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I thought Tom's poem was really poignant.

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The poignant ending of the movie made all of us cry.

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