DICTOMETER

PIERCING

1. Synonyms:
   • Pierce
   Definitions:
   • cut or make a way through
   Examples:
   • The knife cut through the flesh
   • The path pierced the jungle
   • Light pierced through the forest
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Pierce
   Definitions:
   • move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply
   Examples:
   • The cold pierced her bones
   • Her words pierced the students
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Pierce
   Definitions:
   • sound sharply or shrilly
   Examples:
   • The scream pierced the night
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Pierce
   • Thrust
   Definitions:
   • penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Pierce
   Definitions:
   • make a hole into
   Examples:
   • The needle pierced her flesh
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Acute
   • Discriminating
   • Incisive
   • Keen
   • Knifelike
   • Penetrating
   • Penetrative
   • Piercing
   • Sharp
   Definitions:
   • having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Unperceptive
   • Unperceiving
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Cutting
   • Keen
   • Knifelike
   • Piercing
   • Stabbing
   • Lancinate
   • Lancinating
   Definitions:
   • painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   Examples:
   • A cutting wind
   • Keen winds
   • Knifelike cold
   • Piercing knifelike pains
   • Piercing cold
   • Piercing criticism
   • A stabbing pain
   • Lancinating pain
   Antonyms:
   • Dull