English-Spanish translations for poignant

• agudo
• penetrante
• claro
  Lo mismo puede decirse de la propuesta contenida en el informe Poignant de que los buques con pabellón europeo lleven un distintivo claro y físico de la UE. This also applies to the request in the Poignant report that ships under European flags should be given a clear, physical, EU designation.
  El ejemplo más claro de esto es la orden de detención europea, a la que se han hecho varias referencias. The most poignant example of this is the European arrest warrant, to which a number of references have been made.
• conmovedor
• elocuente
• incisivo
• picante
• pungente
• puntiagudo
• punzante
• punzo-cortante

Definition of poignant

• Of a weapon, etc.: sharp-pointed#Adjective|pointed; keen#Adjective|keen
• Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant
• Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress#Noun|distress; emotionally moving#Adjective|moving
• Of a smell#Noun|smell or taste#Noun|taste: piquant, pungent
• Inducing sharp physical#Adjective|physical pain#Noun|pain

Examples

• 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
• His comments were poignant and witty

Related words

• point
• checkpoint
• poison
• self-appointed
• poisonous
• spoil
• poisoning
• spoiled
• appoint
• pointer