Definitions for pungent

pungent pun·gent

Spelling: [puhn-juh nt]
IPA: /ˈpʌn dʒənt/

Pungent is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in pungent (egnnptu).

Definitions for pungent

adjective

  1. sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
  2. acutely distressing to the feelings or mind; poignant.
  3. caustic, biting, or sharply expressive:
  4. mentally stimulating or appealing:
  5. Biology. piercing or sharp-pointed.

Origin of pungent

1590-1600; Latin pungent- (stem of pungēns), present participle of pungere to prick. See poignant, point, Examples for pungent

In all plants which I have found the odor is somewhat strong and the taste is pungent.

New hires are also warned not to wear perfume or aftershave that is too pungent.

This conduct bespeaks the most pungent and unaffected sorrow.

Regardless, that goes double for a hippy isle full of expats and pungent pot known as Bocas del Toro.

On move-in day I opened the front door to a pungent, musky odor of pure mold.

The air was thick with the odor of raw blood and pungent with ozone.

It burns like oil, is of a pungent scent, and a blackish color.

Women who use the pungent coverup make less money than fully topless dancers, but many seem to prefer the alternative.

Their free clinic in central Athens is housed in a shabby apartment that smells of feverish bodies and pungent medicine.

The insipid odour of the meat, the pungent smell of the tripe exasperated him.

Word Value for pungent
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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