piercing, adj.
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
<adj.all>
cutting keen knifelike lancinate lancinating piercing stabbing
sample sentences
"a cutting wind""keen winds"
"knifelike cold"
"piercing knifelike pains"
"piercing cold"
"piercing criticism"
"a stabbing pain"
"lancinating pain"
semantic pointers
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having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
acute discriminating incisive keen knifelike penetrating penetrative piercing sharp
sample sentences
"an acute observer of politics and politicians""incisive comments"
"icy knifelike reasoning"
"as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"
"penetrating insight"
"frequent penetrative observations"
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semantic pointers
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