معنى كلمة poignant | الترجمة والشرح والأمثلة

معنى كلمة poignant بالعربي

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النطق: /ˈpɔɪ.njənt/ | [ˈpɔɪɲ.ənt] | /ˈpɔɪ.nənt/

poignant

When something is poignant, it causes a very strong feeling of sadness.

The girls cried at the end of the poignant movie.

His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...].
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.
The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
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 intensive language input, her vocabulary grew enormously, but her syntax never developed.

distressing, moving

more poignant, most poignant