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Trenchant vs Stinging - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between trenchant and stinging

is that trenchant is fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp while stinging is having the capacity to sting.

As a verb stinging is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun stinging is

the act by which someone receives a sting.

trenchant

English

Alternative forms

* trenchaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
  • *1663 ,
  • *:The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
  • (figuratively) Keen]]; [[bite, biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
  • *1899 ,
  • *:His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.

    • stinging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the capacity to sting.
    • stinging nettles

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone receives a sting.
    • the stingings of scorpions
    stingings of remorse