pungently

1. 1.

   with pungency; in a pungent manner

   “he wrote pungently about his contemporaries”
2. 2.

   with a pungent taste or smell

   “the soup was pungently flavored”

Questions about pungently

What does pungently mean?

pungently means "with pungency; in a pungent manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pungently?

pungently has 3 syllables: pun-gent-ly. The stress falls on "pun". In IPA it is /ˈpʌndʒəntli/.

Is pungently a common word?

pungently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.