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Webster 1913 Edition


Poignantly

Poign′ant-ly

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adv.
In a poignant manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Poignantly

POIGNANTLY

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adv.
poin'antly. In a stimulating, piercing or irritating manner; with keenness or point.

Definition 2024


poignantly

poignantly

English

Adverb

poignantly (comparative more poignantly, superlative most poignantly)

  1. In a poignant manner.
    • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
      So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.