PUNGENT


Meaning of PUNGENT in English

[adjective] - (of a smell or taste) very strong, sometimes in an unpleasant way, or (figurative literary) (of speech or writing) very strongly felt and expressed and often criticalthe pungent whiff of a goatI sat down to a cup of wonderfully pungent Turkish coffee.(figurative literary) He's the author of a pungent political comedy.We need journalism with a cutting, pungent style for this new magazine.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.