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Piquant vs Engrossing - What's the difference?

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Piquant is a related term of engrossing.


As adjectives the difference between piquant and engrossing

is that piquant is engaging; charming while engrossing is utterly consuming one's time and attention.

As a verb engrossing is

present participle of engross.

As a noun engrossing is

the act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.

piquant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Engaging; charming.
  • Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
  • * 2000 , Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)
    • These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
  • * 2005 , Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the world's hot zones
    • Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...
  • * 2009 , Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)
    • French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.
  • (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.

    • engrossing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Present participle of engross

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
    • an engrossing documentary

    Synonyms

    * absorbing * fascinating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who engrosses, or buys up wholesale.