poignant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

   Poignant anxiety.

Common collocations

• poignant grief Adjective + noun

From Middle English poynaunt, poynant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman puignant, poynaunt etc., present participle of poindre (“to prick”), from Latin pungō (“prick”). Doublet of pungent.

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