poignant

Universal Words adjective having a strong effect on your feelings, especially in a way that makes you feel sad SYNMOVING: a poignant image / moment / memory * Her face was a poignant reminder of the passing of time. poignancy noun [U]: the poignancy of parting and separation * Of particular poignancy was the photograph of their son with his sisters, taken the day before he died. poignantly adverb