(obsolete, of a weapon, etc.) Sharp-pointed; keen.
A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke.
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Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
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Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
A particularly poignant example of this is a child called Genie (see Curtiss 1977; Rymer 1993), who was deprived of speech input and kept locked up on her own in a room until age thirteen. When eventually taken into care and exposed to i…
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