stinging

Speech parts

1. stinging - Noun

2. stinging - Adjective

3. stinging - Verb

5. stinging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Sting

Piercing, or capable of piercing, with a sting; inflicting acute pain as if with a sting, goad, or pointed weapon; pungent; biting; as, stinging cold; a stinging rebuke.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cutting edged tingle pang acetic acid severe pain sharp burning harsh bitter keen smart painful

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Antonyms

blazing hot warm heated boiling humid

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Hypernyms

pain hurting

Phrases with the word

common stinging plant stinging hair stinging fish stinging bee slender-bodied non-stinging insect stinging to

Examples

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience. O. Henry

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. Frederick Rolfe

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. Irvin S. Cobb

Love is a garden full of flowers and marriage is a field of stinging nettles. Finnish Proverb

He who runs from the white ant may stumble upon the stinging ant. Nigerian Proverb

A bee stinging a crying face. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

stingiest stingily stinginess stinging bee stinging fish stinging hair