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poignant

English

  1. 🔊 keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
    “poignant anxiety”
  2. 🔊 arousing affect
    “the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene”

Similar words

affecting touching absorbing acerbic acid acidulous acrid acrimonious acute affecting afflictive agitating agonizing asperous astringent atrocious barbed biting bitter bleak blue caustic cheerless comfortless