1 having a strong taste or smell:
the pungent smell of burning rubber * The air was pungent with the smell of spices.
2 direct and having a strong effect:
pungent remarks / criticism
pungency noun [U]
pungently adverb:
the pungently aromatic scent of cloves
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pungent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pungent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pungent is tagged as adjective.
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