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adj. Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation.

adj. Penetrating, biting, or caustic: pungent satire.

adj. To the point; sharp: pungent talks during which the major issues were confronted.

adj. Pointed: a pungent leaf.

adj. Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.

adj. Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste.

adj. Having a sharp and stiff point.

adj. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid.

adj. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

adj. Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

Piercing; sharp.

Specifically — In botany, terminating gradually in a hard sharp point, as the lobes of the holly-leaf.

In entomology, fitted for piercing or penetrating: as, a pungent ovipositor.

Sharp and painful; poignant.

Affecting the tongue like small sharp points; stinging; acrid.

Sharply affecting the sense of smell: as, pungent snuff.

Hence, sharply affecting the mind; curt and expressive; caustic; racy; biting.

Synonyms Sharp, stinging, keen, peppery, acrid, caustic. Piquant, Pungent, Poignant. That which is piquant is just tart enough to be agreeable; that which is pungent is so tart that, if it were more so, it would be positively disagreeable; that which is poignant is likely to prove actually disagreeable to most persons. Pungent is manifestly figurative when not applied to the sense of taste, or, less often, of smell; piquant is similar, but less forcible; poignant is now used chiefly of mental states, etc., as poignant grief, or of things affecting the mind, as poignant wit.

In ichthyology, stiff and sharp-pointed: as, a pungent spine.

adj. strong and sharp

adj. capable of wounding

"However, such a proximate (immediate cause) explanation does not address the ultimate (evolutionary) questions of why cuisines that contain pungent plant products appeal to people and why some phytochemicals are tastier than others."

tasty    sarcastic   

painful    affecting    acrimonious   

pungently    pungence   

acrid    biting    acrimonious    sharp    piercing    stinging    keen    penetrating    acute    pricking   

acrid    musky    fragrant    salty    sour    oily    intoxicating    caustic    resinous    bitter