Exquisite vs Poignant - What's the difference?
exquisite | poignant |
Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
; far-fetched; abstruse.
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
(rare) Fop, dandy.
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
(obsolete, of a weapon etc) Sharp-pointed; keen.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , VII:
Incisive; penetrating.
neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
(figuratively, of a taste or smell) Piquant, pungent.
Piercing.
(dated, mostly British) Inducing sharp physical pain.
As adjectives the difference between exquisite and poignant
is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while poignant is (obsolete|of a weapon etc) sharp-pointed; keen.As a noun exquisite
is (rare) fop, dandy.exquisite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* beautiful, delicate, discriminatingNoun
(en noun)- So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
poignant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...].
- His comments were poignant and witty.
- A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke.
- Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
