Synonyms for Stinging:

• adj.

  •acid (adjective)
  • offensive.
  •acrid (adjective)
  • more amaroidal,
  • most amaroidal.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • dis-agreeable,
  • in-temperate,
  • with chip shoulder,
  • most begrudging,
  • morose,
  • dis agreeable,
  • most estranged,
  • in temperate,
  • in-clement,
  • galling,
  • un-palatable,
  • more estranged,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • un-pleasant,
  • be-grudging,
  • dis tasteful,
  • un pleasant,
  • un palatable,
  • dis pleasing,
  • in clement,
  • be grudging,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • more begrudging.
  •caustic (adjective)
  • satiric,
  • salty,
  • more satiric.
  •cold (adjective)
  • algid,
  • brumal,
  • sleety,
  • iced,
  • frore,
  • below freezing,
  • numbing,
  • hyperborean,
  • gelid,
  • rimy,
  • hiemal,
  • below zero,
  • one-dog night,
  • shivery,
  • icebox,
  • hawkish,
  • have goose bumps,
  • two-dog night.
  •cutting (adjective)
  • in goinger,
  • ingoingest,
  • most wounding,
  • in-goinger,
  • ingoinger,
  • in goingest,
  • In-going,
  • more wounding,
  • in going,
  • in-goingest,
  • clearcut.
  •intense (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • more allconsuming,
  • more all-consuming,
  • pro-founder,
  • in tensest,
  • un-due,
  • un duest,
  • more intensified,
  • most all consuming,
  • in-tensive,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • allconsuming,
  • all consuming,
  • pro found,
  • in-tense,
  • most allconsuming,
  • un duer,
  • in tenser,
  • pro-found,
  • in tense,
  • un-duest,
  • un due,
  • in tensive,
  • un-duer,
  • in-tensest,
  • more all consuming,
  • most all-consuming,
  • pro founder,
  • most intensified.
  •knifelike (adjective)
  • knifelike,
  • Gnawing.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • painful,
  • biting,
  • cold,
  • thorny,
  • cutting,
  • all-consuming,
  • sour,
  • peppery,
  • mordacious,
  • Pricky,
  • well-flavored,
  • arrowlike,
  • highly-seasoned,
  • poignant,
  • sharp-tempered,
  • amaroidal,
  • slashing,
  • intense,
  • extra ordinary,
  • zestful,
  • ingoing,
  • acrid,
  • hottempered,
  • with chip on shoulder,
  • Thistly,
  • piquant,
  • bitter,
  • zesty,
  • caustic,
  • clear cut,
  • barbed,
  • spinous,
  • pungent.
  •painful (adjective)
  • bothersome,
  • aggravating,
  • inflaming,
  • sore,
  • annoying,
  • miserable,
  • unpleasant,
  • hurtful,
  • grueling,
  • anguishing,
  • insufferable,
  • crushing,
  • acute,
  • wrenching,
  • throbbing,
  • aching,
  • extremely bad,
  • troublesome,
  • trying,
  • withering,
  • Torturing.,
  • distressful,
  • horrendous,
  • stabbing,
  • odious,
  • aculeate,
  • grievous,
  • oppressive,
  • tormenting,
  • severe,
  • woeful,
  • arduous,
  • uncomfortable,
  • torturing,
  • burdensome,
  • disagreeable,
  • Besetting,
  • cruel,
  • harrowing,
  • Irksome,
  • excruciating,
  • unbearable,
  • irritating,
  • smarting,
  • agonizing,
  • Cramping,
  • chafing.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • more sharptempered,
  • quicktempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • quick tempered,
  • most sharp tempered,
  • hot tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • more sharp tempered.
  •piquant (adjective)
  • with kick,
  • more highly-seasoned,
  • more wellflavored,
  • with a kick,
  • zestiest,
  • most highly seasoned,
  • most zestful,
  • most highlyseasoned,
  • more highlyseasoned,
  • most well flavored,
  • most highly-seasoned,
  • most well-flavored,
  • pro-vocative,
  • wellflavored,
  • more highly seasoned,
  • pro vocative,
  • zestier,
  • highlyseasoned,
  • tangy,
  • well flavored,
  • most wellflavored,
  • more zestful,
  • more well-flavored,
  • more well flavored,
  • highly seasoned.
  •pungent (adjective)
  • effluvious,
  • most effluvious,
  • most odoriferous,
  • odoriferous,
  • whiffiest,
  • nosey,
  • whiffier,
  • more effluvious,
  • whiffy,
  • more odoriferous.
  •sensation (adjective)
  • creepy,
  • titillating,
  • tingly,
  • smooth,
  • Crawly,
  • itchy,
  • rough,
  • prickly,
  • thrilling.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • horned,
  • needlelike,
  • sharp-edged,
  • spiky,
  • Unblunted,
  • splintery,
  • keen-edged,
  • spikier,
  • tined,
  • spikiest,
  • apical,
  • Needle-pointed,
  • pronged,
  • acuate,
  • ground fine,
  • spiny,
  • Acuminous.
  •sour (adjective)
  • acetose,
  • sourish,
  • vinegary,
  • curdled.
  •thorny (adjective)
  • most spinous,
  • more arrowlike,
  • more bristling,
  • most arrowlike,
  • most bristling,
  • more spinous.

• n.

  •
  • outright,
  • in depth,
  • resounding,
  • unadulterated,
  • respect,
  • acerbic,
  • pure,
  • vitriolic,
  • utter,
  • truculent,
  • trenchant,
  • thorough,
  • mordant,
  • sound,
  • attack,
  • total,
  • scathing,
  • corrosive,
  • good.
  •
  • angry,
  • chronic,
  • agonising,
  • achy,
  • bad,
  • burning,
  • chapped,
  • crippling.
  •
  • claustrophobic,
  • troubling,
  • unsettling,
  • strange,
  • unnatural,
  • cramped,
  • strained,
  • heavy,
  • tight.
  •edged (noun)
  • edged.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • hurting,
  • characteristic,
  • piercing,
  • painful condition,
  • pain.
  •sensation (noun)
  • itchiness,
  • smoothness,
  • crawling,
  • Prickliness,
  • titillation,
  • roughness,
  • Creepiness.

• v.

  •paining (verb)
  • racking,
  • suffering,
  • distressing,
  • Paining,
  • Afflicting,
  • stitching,
  • Discomforting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • acidic,
  • astringent.
  •
  • sharp.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • gruff,
  • shrewd,
  • souffle,
  • abusive,
  • incensing,
  • puff,
  • stick in,
  • sensitive,
  • Angering,
  • taste,
  • acidulous,
  • prick,
  • rigourous,
  • grumpy,
  • wearisome,
  • chill,
  • razor-sharp,
  • sharpened,
  • cantankerous,
  • awkward,
  • acetous,
  • plaguy,
  • raw,
  • cynical,
  • freezing,
  • sardonic,
  • violent,
  • eager,
  • pang,
  • scrounge,
  • Plaguing,
  • fraud,
  • curt,
  • scud,
  • spindrift,
  • cross,
  • acidulent,
  • Searing,
  • acerbate,
  • white water,
  • prickle,
  • upsetting,
  • atrocious,
  • crabbed,
  • irate,
  • Harassing,
  • puncture,
  • corroding,
  • irascible,
  • bit,
  • injure,
  • ill-natured,
  • Griping,
  • fierce,
  • bluff,
  • austere,
  • lancinate,
  • tiresome,
  • invidious,
  • stingy,
  • irritable,
  • convict,
  • smart,
  • meringue,
  • stringent,
  • vinegarish,
  • stab,
  • lather,
  • pick,
  • vexing,
  • irritant,
  • Burning Pain,
  • brambly,
  • high-,
  • bunco,
  • confidence trick,
  • sulky,
  • full-flavored,
  • strong,
  • head,
  • breaker,
  • bunko game,
  • razor-like,
  • Aculeolate,
  • froth,
  • morsel,
  • nettle,
  • bleak,
  • mooch,
  • hard,
  • brisk,
  • keen,
  • bristly,
  • offend,
  • Muricate,
  • scratchy,
  • surly,
  • polar,
  • nettlesome,
  • first cut,
  • Nettling,
  • trick,
  • brusque,
  • elbow,
  • stern,
  • testy,
  • haste,
  • querulous,
  • stung,
  • pointed,
  • quick,
  • fiery,
  • outrageous,
  • penetrating,
  • nagging,
  • hurry,
  • bearish,
  • tender,
  • scum,
  • sarcastic,
  • thrill,
  • fire,
  • con,
  • commotion,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • acidulated,
  • churlish,
  • Vellicating,
  • ironic,
  • peevish,
  • sting,
  • High-seasoned,
  • nasty,
  • irritative,
  • stiff,
  • racy,
  • shooting,
  • reproachful,
  • unkind,
  • paresthesia,
  • exasperating,
  • rasping,
  • spicy,
  • rude,
  • provoking,
  • crusty,
  • unsavory,
  • strident,
  • collar,
  • critical,
  • crotchety,
  • pins and needles,
  • nipping,
  • burn,
  • suds,
  • Meracious,
  • flurry,
  • pervasive,
  • chafed,
  • frigid,
  • incisive,
  • prickles,
  • torturous,
  • anguish,
  • suffer,
  • con game,
  • grating,
  • grave,
  • disturbing,
  • virulent,
  • foam,
  • infuriating,
  • challenging,
  • spume,
  • Bunco Game,
  • harsh,
  • hot,
  • savage,
  • provocative,
  • bustle,
  • Escharotic,
  • flimflam,
  • nippy,
  • abrupt,
  • gyp,
  • chilling,
  • Spasmatic,
  • petulant,
  • spasmodic,
  • unaccommodating,
  • Acanaceous,
  • shrill,
  • mousse,
  • wounding,
  • surf,
  • chilly,
  • hoax,
  • Ear-splitting,
  • vexatious,
  • knife-edged,
  • sullen,
  • Asperous,
  • confidence game,
  • swindle,
  • prickling,
  • damp,
  • insect bite,
  • uncivil,
  • Enraging,
  • buzz,
  • paroxysmal,
  • vicious,
  • acrimonious,
  • disquieting,
  • nociceptive,
  • bunko,
  • lancinating,
  • chafe,
  • rapier-like,
  • gamy,
  • mortifying,
  • inflamed,
  • swift,
  • maddening,
  • acid,
  • high-tasted,
  • scorching,
  • afflictive,
  • tingle,
  • hustle,
  • rigorous,
  • urtication,
  • vehement,
  • stick,
  • acerb,
  • grinding,
  • Fretting,
  • briery,
  • irritated,
  • seasoned,
  • short-tempered,
  • grouchy,
  • double-edged,
  • tart,
  • bite,
  • short,
  • tingling,
  • pricking,
  • bad-tempered,
  • humiliating,
  • ill-humoured,
  • spray,
  • ear-shattering.

Paraphrases for Stinging:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    damning.

Antonyms for Stinging:

• adj.

  • painful
    bland, pleasant, stupid, kind, unintelligent, blunt, dull, calm, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    gentle, saccharine, soothing, dulcet, Nectared, balmy, sweet, luscious, honeyed, mild.

Homophones for Stinging:

• stinginess, sweating sickness, staunchness, section gang, stinkiness, stinking, stinking yew, St. Thomas Aquinas.