Mordant vs Poignant - What's the difference?
mordant | poignant |
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
* 1964', ''In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the '''mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.'' — , ''English Industries of the Middle Ages , p. 208.
Any corrosive substance used in etching.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
(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 mordant and poignant
is that mordant is having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe while poignant is (obsolete|of a weapon etc) sharp-pointed; keen.As a noun mordant
is any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.As a verb mordant
is to subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.mordant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Mordant these goods for dyeing.
See also
* (wikipedia "mordant") * mordentAnagrams
* ----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.
