piercing

  • (s) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
    • 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
    incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, discriminating, knifelike, acute, sharp,
  • (s) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
    • a cutting wind
    • keen winds
    • knifelike cold
    • piercing knifelike pains
    • piercing cold
    • piercing criticism
    • a stabbing pain
    • lancinating pain
    lancinate, lancinating, stabbing, cutting, knifelike, keen,

Synonyms

incisive keen penetrating penetrative discriminating knifelike acute sharp lancinate lancinating stabbing cutting

Words of close approximity

piercingly