Strident vs Poignant - What's the difference?
strident | poignant |
Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding
Grating or obnoxious
(nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides
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(linguistics) One of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.
(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 strident and poignant
is that strident is loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding while poignant is (obsolete|of a weapon etc) sharp-pointed; keen.As a noun strident
is (linguistics) one of a class of s-like fricatives produced by an airstream directed at the upper teeth.strident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The trumpet sounded strident against the string orchestra.
- The artist chose a strident mixture of colors.
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Derived terms
* stridently * stridencyNoun
(en noun)References
*Anagrams
* ----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.