pungent

Other forms of pungent

comparative

pungenter·

superlative

pungentest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pungent

What does pungent mean?

pungent means "strong and sharp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pungent?

pungent has 2 syllables: pun-gent. The stress falls on "pun". In IPA it is /ˈpʌndʒənt/.

What is another word for pungent?

Close synonyms include acrid, barbed, biting, nipping, mordacious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pungent a common word?

pungent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.