Synonyms for Poignant:

• adj.

  •acute (adjective)
  • most shooting,
  • over-powering,
  • most racking,
  • more acute,
  • over whelming,
  • over powering,
  • severe,
  • powerful,
  • more racking,
  • more shooting,
  • over-whelming.
  •affecting, painful (adjective)
  • disturbing,
  • agitating,
  • sentimental,
  • touching,
  • heartrending,
  • agonizing,
  • intense,
  • perturbing,
  • sorrowful.
  •all (adjective)
  • poignant.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • dis-pleasing,
  • un palatable,
  • in-tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tensest,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • in tenser,
  • in-temperate,
  • in-clement,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis tasteful,
  • in temperate,
  • dis pleasing,
  • un-pleasant,
  • galling,
  • in clement,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-palatable,
  • in tense,
  • dis-agreeable.
  •cruel (adjective)
  • in-exorable,
  • re vengeful,
  • in exorable,
  • flinty,
  • un kind,
  • most inhuman,
  • in humane,
  • un feeling,
  • un kinder,
  • more brutish,
  • more hard hearted,
  • hard hearted,
  • most hard hearted,
  • un-feeling,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • un-kind,
  • un-kinder,
  • de-generate,
  • un-relenting,
  • monstrous,
  • un relenting,
  • painful,
  • un-kindest,
  • cold blooded,
  • in human,
  • most brutish,
  • more demoniac,
  • de generate,
  • in-humane,
  • un-natural,
  • un natural,
  • more evil,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • most demoniac,
  • in-human,
  • re-vengeful,
  • un kindest.
  •eloquent (adjective)
  • more well expressed,
  • suggestive,
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • more wellexpressed,
  • most fervid,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • outspoken,
  • most well-expressed,
  • most well expressed,
  • out spoken,
  • more well-expressed,
  • smoothspoken,
  • well expressed,
  • potent,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • most revealing,
  • silvertongued,
  • wellexpressed,
  • most wellexpressed,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • smooth spoken,
  • most telling,
  • more revealing,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • more telling,
  • out-spoken,
  • silver tongued.
  •emotional (adjective)
  • heartwarming,
  • hysterical,
  • hot-blooded,
  • temperamental,
  • excitable,
  • over-wrought.
  •entertaining (adjective)
  • screamest,
  • more captivating,
  • riotest,
  • most side splitting,
  • more side splitting,
  • in-spiring,
  • most captivating,
  • more relaxing,
  • pro vocative,
  • be a ball,
  • side-splitting,
  • more side-splitting,
  • most relaxing,
  • de lightful,
  • gassest,
  • more recreative,
  • be ball,
  • most side-splitting,
  • re creative,
  • pro-vocative,
  • side splitting,
  • de-lightful,
  • funnier,
  • rousing,
  • witty,
  • most recreative,
  • in spiring.
  •expressive (adjective)
  • more revelatory,
  • most revelatory,
  • re-presentative,
  • under-standing,
  • forcible,
  • re presentative,
  • under standing,
  • more understanding.
  •exquisite (adjective)
  • more transcending,
  • most transcending.
  •heartbreaking (adjective)
  • heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • un-fortunate,
  • heart-rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • un fortunate,
  • more heart rending.
  •mordant (adjective)
  • mordant,
  • scathing.
  •moving (adjective)
  • mind-bending,
  • felt in gut,
  • stimulative,
  • grabbed by,
  • inspirational,
  • turned on by.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • piquant,
  • high-pressure,
  • ironfisted,
  • racy,
  • peppery,
  • highly-seasoned,
  • arousing affect,
  • tender,
  • pungent,
  • eloquent,
  • cruel,
  • inhumane,
  • aromal,
  • hardnosed,
  • zestful,
  • dead set on,
  • brick-wall,
  • well-flavored,
  • spicy,
  • acute,
  • all heart,
  • steamed up,
  • Commiserable,
  • brick wall,
  • smooth-spoken,
  • pathetic,
  • gasser,
  • brutish,
  • hotblooded,
  • stringent,
  • well-expressed,
  • lovey dovey,
  • exquisite,
  • bitter,
  • screamer,
  • rioter,
  • by the book,
  • entertaining,
  • passionate,
  • Re-creative,
  • Iron-fisted,
  • bleeding-heart,
  • revelatory,
  • highpowered,
  • zesty,
  • lovey-dovey,
  • Hard-hearted,
  • Recreative,
  • aculeate,
  • demoniac,
  • piteous,
  • moving,
  • by numbers,
  • emotional,
  • coldblooded,
  • distressing.
  •passionate (adjective)
  • head-long,
  • head long,
  • more quickened,
  • high pressure,
  • most quickened,
  • more highpressure,
  • more high-pressure,
  • most high-pressure,
  • more high pressure,
  • most highpressure,
  • high powered,
  • most high pressure,
  • highpressure.
  •pathetic (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • in adequate,
  • most commiserable,
  • more commiserable.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • most zestful,
  • more zestful,
  • zestiest,
  • zestier.
  •piquant (adjective)
  • more well flavored,
  • highlyseasoned,
  • more highly-seasoned,
  • most highly seasoned,
  • most well flavored,
  • more highly seasoned,
  • more well-flavored,
  • most wellflavored,
  • wellflavored,
  • more highlyseasoned,
  • well flavored,
  • most well-flavored,
  • most highly-seasoned,
  • tangy,
  • with a kick,
  • with kick,
  • more wellflavored,
  • most highlyseasoned.
  •piteous (adjective)
  • more entreating,
  • more supplicating,
  • most entreating,
  • most supplicating,
  • more beseeching,
  • most beseeching,
  • most imploring,
  • more imploring.
  •pungent (adjective)
  • sharp,
  • acrid,
  • salter,
  • whiffy,
  • sour,
  • caustic,
  • nosey,
  • odoriferous,
  • effluvious.
  •racy (adjective)
  • most gingery,
  • gingery,
  • more gingery.
  •sad (adjective)
  • un-happy,
  • dis composing,
  • most disheartening,
  • most dejecting,
  • un happiest,
  • de-pressing,
  • dis heartening,
  • up-setting,
  • most discomposing,
  • more discomposing,
  • un happier,
  • dis-composing,
  • un satisfactory,
  • up setting,
  • un happy,
  • more disheartening,
  • dis-heartening,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • more dejecting,
  • more saddening,
  • de pressing,
  • most saddening.
  •spicy (adjective)
  • highly seasoned,
  • most aromal,
  • more aromal,
  • most herbaceous,
  • herbaceous,
  • more herbaceous.
  •stinging (adjective)
  • more aculeate,
  • most aculeate.
  •stringent (adjective)
  • in-flexible,
  • more brick-wall,
  • more brickwall,
  • most brick-wall,
  • more drawing,
  • iron fisted,
  • un-permissive,
  • un permissive,
  • brickwall,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • most drawing,
  • most brickwall,
  • in flexible,
  • most confining,
  • more brick wall,
  • more ironfisted,
  • more confining,
  • more unpermissive,
  • most unpermissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • most iron fisted,
  • hard nosed,
  • more iron-fisted,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • ex-acting,
  • by book,
  • more iron fisted,
  • most ironfisted,
  • ex acting,
  • most brick wall.
  •tearful (adjective)
  • blubbery,
  • in tears.
  •tender (adjective)
  • more bleedingheart,
  • more lovey dovey,
  • most loveydovey,
  • more caring,
  • more bleeding heart,
  • bleedingheart,
  • most bleedingheart,
  • loveydovey,
  • most bleeding-heart,
  • most lovey dovey,
  • more loveydovey,
  • more bleeding-heart,
  • more lovey-dovey,
  • most caring,
  • most bleeding heart,
  • most lovey-dovey.

• n.

  •
  • dismal,
  • miserable,
  • tragic,
  • upsetting,
  • depressing,
  • terrible,
  • unhappy,
  • heartbreaking.
  •
  • touch.
  •
  • taste.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • speech,
  • state.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • stirring,
  • impressive,
  • sad.
  •affecting
  • affecting,
  • pitiful.
  •eloquent
  • expressive.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • endure,
  • stand,
  • sting,
  • serious,
  • acrimony,
  • sarcastic,
  • peppy,
  • vitriolic,
  • acid,
  • dandy,
  • dusk,
  • slashing,
  • calamitous,
  • heart-breaking,
  • striking,
  • subtle,
  • astringent,
  • achy,
  • rueful,
  • fresh,
  • telling,
  • deep,
  • earnestly,
  • barb,
  • Dolorific,
  • pitiable,
  • edgy,
  • impassioned,
  • harrowing,
  • poignancy,
  • extreme,
  • thrilling,
  • shrewd,
  • thorn,
  • sensitive,
  • vivid,
  • double-edged,
  • vital,
  • comfortless,
  • sternly,
  • bitterly,
  • gloom,
  • cutting,
  • imperative,
  • impelling,
  • desolation,
  • grievous,
  • savory,
  • effective,
  • sadly,
  • spirited,
  • heartily,
  • austere,
  • shrill,
  • glumness,
  • barbed,
  • dreary,
  • greatly,
  • gimlet,
  • sardonic,
  • stressful,
  • excruciating,
  • suffer,
  • readily,
  • strong,
  • heartfelt,
  • excessively,
  • pointed,
  • homefelt,
  • fervent,
  • Spasmatic,
  • pungency,
  • earnest,
  • repress,
  • hard,
  • melancholy,
  • virulent,
  • grave,
  • keenly,
  • consuming,
  • doleful,
  • Sinewed,
  • lurid,
  • warm,
  • dismaying,
  • harshly,
  • undergo,
  • woebegone,
  • corrosive,
  • mordacity,
  • absorbing,
  • acerbic,
  • tearful,
  • agonising,
  • prevent,
  • irritating,
  • firmly,
  • efficient,
  • compelling,
  • Cramping,
  • severely,
  • showy,
  • penetrative,
  • deplorable,
  • smart,
  • hurting,
  • irritation,
  • Escharotic,
  • pervading,
  • poignantly,
  • quick,
  • intensely,
  • hot,
  • acidulous,
  • gravely,
  • mournful,
  • saucy,
  • teary,
  • accept,
  • knifelike,
  • nervous,
  • Gnawing,
  • sinewy,
  • stinging,
  • distressful,
  • pregnant,
  • stanch,
  • forceful,
  • joyless,
  • lively,
  • shooting,
  • woeful,
  • sore,
  • arrest,
  • edged,
  • stern,
  • profound,
  • inspiring,
  • eagerly,
  • hurtful,
  • passionately,
  • depression,
  • auger,
  • oppressive,
  • anguish,
  • dramatic,
  • vehemently,
  • lose,
  • ardent,
  • hold,
  • fierce,
  • torturous,
  • snappy,
  • dimness,
  • extremely,
  • affective,
  • sharply,
  • harsh,
  • Asperous,
  • tart,
  • sparkling,
  • salty,
  • driving,
  • abide,
  • regrettable,
  • trenchant,
  • blue,
  • biting,
  • penetrating,
  • gloominess,
  • Punchy,
  • piquancy,
  • persuasive,
  • dreariness,
  • darkness,
  • drastic,
  • saddening,
  • bide,
  • stabbing,
  • vigorous,
  • maudlin,
  • brisk,
  • uncomfortable,
  • pert,
  • paroxysmal,
  • spine,
  • strident,
  • pathos,
  • sincere,
  • acerbity,
  • allow,
  • loaded,
  • ardently,
  • rough,
  • nimble-witted,
  • sorely,
  • pay,
  • brilliant,
  • lamentable,
  • let,
  • cheerless,
  • mawkish,
  • atrocious,
  • zealously,
  • bitterness,
  • acrimonious,
  • sudden,
  • depressive,
  • get,
  • fine,
  • provocative,
  • rigorous,
  • emotive,
  • afflictive,
  • incisive,
  • hinder,
  • spasmodic,
  • receive,
  • cloud,
  • indelible,
  • salt,
  • racking,
  • active,
  • hardly,
  • sincerely,
  • soul-stirring,
  • deeply felt,
  • have,
  • exciting,
  • zingy,
  • strongly,
  • cordially,
  • seriously,
  • violent,
  • deep-rooted,
  • wretched,
  • pang,
  • enormously,
  • burning,
  • plaintive,
  • permit,
  • keen,
  • bleak,
  • blackness,
  • tolerate,
  • Impassionate,
  • dolorous,
  • sensational,
  • disastrous,
  • piercing,
  • deep-felt,
  • Griping,
  • vivacious,
  • haunting,
  • badly,
  • Discomforting,
  • vehement,
  • tormenting,
  • mordacious,
  • deeply,
  • gutsy,
  • clever,
  • thought-provoking.

Paraphrases for Poignant:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    disturbing, pathetic, appalling, glaring, emotional, blatant, profound, painstaking, embarrassing, desperate, flagrant, sad.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    harrowing, distressing, painful, touching, moving, tragic, striking.

Antonyms for Poignant:

• adj.

  • affecting, painful
    dull, cheerful, blah, unemotional, happy, soothing, blunt, unaffecting, numb, calm, unmoving, pleasant, wonderful, indifferent.
  • sharp, bitter
    nice, kind, mild.
  • Other antonyms:
    deadpan, leaden, dilute, cool, barren, unimpressive, tasteless, savorless, painless, flavorless, weak, bland, emotionless, arid, dispassionate, thin, cold, detached, predictable.