Synonyms for Trenchant:

• adj.

  •acid (adjective)
  • offensive.
  •acrimonious (adjective)
  • most splenetic,
  • more splenetic,
  • splenetic.
  •all (adjective)
  • trenchant.
  •blunt (adjective)
  • plainspoken,
  • gruff,
  • explicit,
  • matter of fact,
  • snappy,
  • shortest,
  • outspoken,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • short,
  • Plain-spoken.
  •caustic (adjective)
  • salty.
  •corrosive (adjective)
  • more corroding,
  • venomous,
  • most erosive,
  • most corroding,
  • more wasting,
  • most wasting,
  • more erosive.
  •critical (adjective)
  • calumniatory,
  • nit-picking,
  • Cavillous,
  • Exceptive,
  • reproachful.
  •cutting (adjective)
  • ingoingest,
  • clearcut,
  • in going,
  • ingoinger,
  • more wounding,
  • in-goinger,
  • in goinger,
  • in-goingest,
  • most wounding,
  • In-going,
  • in goingest.
  •decisive (adjective)
  • more strong-minded,
  • all out,
  • most strong minded,
  • most resolved,
  • re-solute,
  • most strong-minded,
  • litmus test,
  • re solved,
  • re solute,
  • more strongminded,
  • more resolved,
  • strongminded,
  • final,
  • strong minded,
  • in tent,
  • peremptory,
  • most strongminded,
  • re-solved,
  • more strong minded.
  •distinct (adjective)
  • more sharp cut,
  • un-mistakable,
  • more sharp-cut,
  • un-equivocal,
  • more evident,
  • more enunciated,
  • evident,
  • more recognizable,
  • most enunciated,
  • more sharpcut,
  • most sharp cut,
  • clean cut,
  • noticeable,
  • cleancut,
  • un mistakable,
  • pre-scribed,
  • palatable,
  • re-cognizable,
  • ex-press,
  • pre scribed,
  • recognizable,
  • sharpcut,
  • un ambiguous,
  • welldefined,
  • trans-parent,
  • trans parent,
  • well defined,
  • most sharp-cut,
  • most recognizable,
  • de finite,
  • re cognizable,
  • ex press,
  • most sharpcut,
  • un equivocal,
  • de-finite,
  • sharp cut.
  •effective (adjective)
  • forcible,
  • having lead in pencil,
  • playing hardball,
  • powerhouse,
  • virtuous.
  •emphatic (adjective)
  • more accented,
  • resounding,
  • most accented,
  • re-sounding,
  • more stressed,
  • re sounding,
  • for face,
  • more pronounced,
  • most stressed.
  •incisive (adjective)
  • most drilling,
  • pro found,
  • more drilling,
  • pro founder,
  • pro-found,
  • pro-founder.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • incisive.
  •ironic/ironical (adjective)
  • mocking,
  • most uncomplimentary,
  • in congruous,
  • most jibing,
  • most backbiting,
  • doubleedged,
  • in-congruous,
  • double edged,
  • more uncomplimentary,
  • most double-edged,
  • most double edged,
  • more double edged,
  • most ironical,
  • most doubleedged,
  • most chaffing,
  • more jibing,
  • quick witted,
  • more doubleedged,
  • more ironic,
  • most paradoxical,
  • more paradoxical,
  • more backbiting,
  • un-complimentary,
  • more chaffing,
  • more double-edged,
  • un complimentary,
  • wry,
  • quickwitted.
  •keen (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • more razor-sharp,
  • more razorsharp,
  • in-tense,
  • in tense,
  • most razorsharp,
  • most edged,
  • more unblunted,
  • most razor-sharp,
  • in tenser,
  • razor sharp,
  • more honed,
  • razorsharp,
  • most razor sharp,
  • most honed,
  • more razor sharp,
  • in-tensest,
  • un blunted,
  • most unblunted,
  • un-blunted,
  • more edged.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • over critical,
  • overcritical.
  •penetrating (adjective)
  • more infiltrating,
  • more carrying,
  • in filtrating,
  • more forcing,
  • in-filtrating,
  • more penetrant,
  • more puncturing,
  • most penetrant,
  • most carrying,
  • more entering,
  • most entering,
  • most infiltrating,
  • most permeating,
  • most puncturing,
  • more permeating,
  • going through,
  • most forcing.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • quicktempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • quick tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • more sharptempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • sharptempered,
  • hot tempered,
  • most sharp tempered.
  •perceivable (adjective)
  • more percipient,
  • more cognitive,
  • more cognoscible,
  • most cognitive,
  • trans-lucent,
  • trans lucent,
  • most cognizable,
  • more appercipient,
  • most appercipient,
  • most cognoscible,
  • most percipient,
  • more cognizable.
  •pithy (adjective)
  • down brass tacks,
  • more short and sweet,
  • epigrammatic,
  • more short-and-sweet,
  • most short and sweet,
  • most short-and-sweet.
  •pointed (adjective)
  • laid on line,
  • in nutshell,
  • laid line,
  • laid the line,
  • calling a spade spade,
  • most right on,
  • more right on,
  • calling spade spade,
  • most right-on,
  • more righton,
  • more right-on,
  • righton,
  • most righton,
  • in-sinuating,
  • in sinuating,
  • boiled down,
  • right it,
  • on button.
  •potent (adjective)
  • gogetter,
  • ball fire,
  • fullbodied,
  • more go-getter,
  • go getter,
  • most gogetter,
  • more gogetter,
  • puissant,
  • more go getter,
  • most go getter,
  • most go-getter,
  • full bodied.
  •pungent (adjective)
  • pro vocative,
  • zesty,
  • ex citing,
  • saltest,
  • zestiest,
  • salter,
  • pro-vocative,
  • zestier.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • more snarling,
  • dis-illusioned,
  • more needling,
  • more taunting,
  • dis illusioned,
  • most needling,
  • more twitting,
  • dis respectful,
  • most snarling,
  • most cussed,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • smartalecky,
  • most taunting,
  • more cussed,
  • dis-respectful,
  • needling,
  • most weisenheiming,
  • most twitting.
  •sarcastic, scathing (adjective)
  • hurtful,
  • unequivocal,
  • intense,
  • crisp,
  • vigorous,
  • sardonic,
  • graphic,
  • acidulous,
  • severe,
  • clear,
  • energetic,
  • forceful,
  • powerful,
  • crushing,
  • driving,
  • impressive,
  • weighty,
  • salient,
  • unsparing,
  • dynamic,
  • significant,
  • well-defined,
  • piquant,
  • sententious.
  •satiric (adjective)
  • satiric.
  •scathing (adjective)
  • most sulphurous,
  • more sulphurous,
  • sulphurous.
  •straightforward (adjective)
  • blunt.
  •strong (adjective)
  • well-established,
  • well-founded.
  •tart (adjective)
  • tangy,
  • most vinegary,
  • more vinegary,
  • most acetose,
  • more acetose.
  •telling (adjective)
  • most telling,
  • more telling.
  •terse (adjective)
  • more breviloquent,
  • cut the bone,
  • most gnomic,
  • to point,
  • more clipped,
  • cut bone,
  • taut,
  • ex-act,
  • most compendiary,
  • short sweet,
  • most breviloquent,
  • ex act,
  • more compendiary,
  • more gnomic,
  • most clipped.
  •truculent (adjective)
  • in-humane,
  • co-wing,
  • badtempered,
  • in-human,
  • co wing,
  • more browbeating,
  • more invective,
  • most invective,
  • more terrorizing,
  • in human,
  • more vituperous,
  • most cowing,
  • most terrorizing,
  • most vituperous,
  • more cowing,
  • bad tempered,
  • most browbeating.

• n.

  •
  • sensitive,
  • perceptive,
  • careful.
  •
  • respect,
  • attack,
  • acerbic.
  •effectual (noun)
  • effectual.
  •efficacious (noun)
  • efficacious.
  •intelligent (noun)
  • intelligent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • acidic,
  • stinging,
  • ironic,
  • much,
  • astringent.
  •
  • mordant,
  • scathing,
  • vitriolic,
  • readable.
  •
  • acute.
  •
  • acid.
  •
  • sharp.
  •insulting
  • vituperative.
  •trenchant
  • devastating.

Paraphrases for Trenchant:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    incisive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    assertive, forceful, sharp, stringent.

Antonyms for Trenchant:

• adj.

  • sarcastic, scathing
    soothing, calm, frivolous, nice, weak, kind, gentle, mild, stupid, bland, impotent.
  • Other antonyms:
    ineffective, rounded, even, smooth, slick, dulled, blunted, level, unintelligent, ineffectual, dull, soft, obtuse, flat, blunt, uneffective.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    bounce, cloudy, inefficacious, opaque.