POIGNANCY Synonyms

• arousing affect

• English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)

• the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

• the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

• extremely and sharply

• marked by strong resentment or cynicism

• very difficult to accept or bear

• harsh or corrosive in tone

• expressive of severe grief or regret

• proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity

• causing a sharp and acrid taste experience

• causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

• make bitter

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

• determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason

• of more than usual emotion

• of or pertaining to emotion

• (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

• sincerely earnest

• possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree

• extremely sharp or severe

• (of color) having the highest saturation

• in motion

• arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion

• used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion

• inspiring mixed contempt and pity

• bad; unfortunate

• deserving or inciting pity

• arousing affect

• keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

• having great power or force or potency or effect

• (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree

• strong enough to knock down or overwhelm

• having great influence

• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

• displaying superhuman strength or power

• showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

• of the greatest intensity; complete

• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• coming from deep within one

• (of sleep) deep and complete

• situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• agitating a liquid with an implement

• arousing to a particular emotion or action

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

• exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions

• the event of something coming in contact with the body

• the act of putting two things together with no space between them

• arousing affect

• a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• a style that has the power to evoke feelings

• a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow