Crossword-Solution: POIGNANT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poignant | a. | Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent. |
| Poignant | a. | Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POIGNANT | anagram | PAIGNTON |
We have 9 clues for the answer “POIGNANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing painful feelings | 1 answer |
| Emotionally moving | 1 answer |
| Keenly distressing | 1 answer |
| causing sharp sadness | 1 answer |
| Heart-felt | 25 answers |
| Affecting | 52 answers |
| Touching | 75 answers |
| Keen | 86 answers |
| Moving | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POIGNANT (5)
With the stoicism of the green Martian he showed no sign of suffering, yet I knew that his grief was as poignant as my own.
The distinguishing mark of the hens was a crest of lamentably scanty growth, in these latter days, but so oddly and wickedly analogous to Hepzibah’s turban, that Phœbe—to the poignant distress of her conscience, but inevitably—was led to fancy a general resemblance betwixt these forlorn bipeds and her respectable relative.
Scarce an hour passed that did not bring its recollection of Korak, and its poignant yearning to see him again.
She says she's like people who have been home from Europe three years; she's past the most poignant stage of regret, and hasn't reached the second, when they feel that they must go again." Lapham leaned a little toward Mrs.
The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
Quotes with POIGNANT (3)
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was familiar, and something about it made my chest ache. Well, that was to be expected. Angels' songs would be awfully poignant. "'I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you...'" the voice crooned. I frowned. Was that really an appropriate song for the Heavenly Host to be--
But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1983–2018).