trenchant

Speech parts

1. trenchant - Adjective

2. trenchant - Verb

3. trenchant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.

Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

distinct searching hard-hitting savage strong clear salter critical effective acid severe sharp pointed cutting telling
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Antonyms

dizzy extended extensive weak gender diplomatic
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Examples

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become. Don DeLillo

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. Paul J. Meyer

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Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest Source: Internet

trenchant distinctions between right and wrong Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

trench-plow trenchancy trenchand trenchantly trenchantness Trenchard