Flamboyant vs Poignant - What's the difference?
flamboyant | poignant |
Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
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(architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
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A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia )
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(obsolete, of a weapon etc) Sharp-pointed; keen.
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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 flamboyant and poignant
is that flamboyant is showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc while poignant is (obsolete|of a weapon etc) sharp-pointed; keen.As a noun flamboyant
is a showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (delonix regia ).flamboyant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
- But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; .
- The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
- S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
- The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
- The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
Noun
(en noun)- The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants , scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
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.
