Passionate vs Pungent - What's the difference?
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Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
* Prior
(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
* 1596 , , II. i. 544:
* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
(obsolete) To express with great emotion.
* 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.
* 1991 , , Concrete: American Christmas , Dark Horse Books
Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste.
Stinging; acerbic.
Having a sharp and stiff point.
Passionate is a related term of pungent.
As adjectives the difference between passionate and pungent
is that passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual while pungent is having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.As a noun passionate
is a passionate individual.As a verb passionate
is (obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.passionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Synonyms
* (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.Verb
(passionat)- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The lasagne included plenty of pungent garlic.
- I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent .
- The critic gave a pungent review.