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poignant

/poin-yuhnt, poi-nuhnt/US // ˈpɔɪn yənt, ˈpɔɪ nənt //UK // (ˈpɔɪnjənt, -nənt) //

凄美的,凄婉的,凄惨的,凄美

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
    • : keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.
    • : affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
    • : pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.affecting, painful

Examples

  • Barnett’s painstaking attention to detail renders particularly poignant the irony of the impact that the oil trade has had on marine life.

  • This track helped me through lockdown as it is one of my all-time favorites and the song’s message is particularly poignant and relevant right now – stop discriminating against each other and help each other out.

  • Space, once a man’s place, is at last and forever changing—and Wally Funk is perhaps the most poignant face of that transformation.

  • It works, and is so poignant and awkward that it’s no surprise that reviews often mentioned Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback as a cringe-comedy reference point.

  • You included a poignant anecdote about your son interrupting your reading on a rainy day.

  • It was poignant, and we so wanted to leave and be out there.

  • All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant.

  • But Billy Childs absolutely delivers the goods in this poignant collection of Laura Nyro songs.

  • And as a writer and actor on The Mack, he made that film feel both more desperate and more poignant.

  • “Three is a Magic Number” becomes stunningly poignant to any couple that welcomes its first child.

  • In that poignant moment of self-revelation Tom's cumbersome machinery of intuition did not fail him.

  • The most poignant test, however, came when port was reached and the scented land-wind met his nostrils with the—Spring.

  • Octavie felt as if she had passed into a stage of existence which was like a dream, more poignant and real than life.

  • This immediate, poignant grief stung them bitterly and prevented for the moment any thought of what the future might hold.

  • The edge of her wit had become poignant, her speech rendered logical and allusive.