Difference between Pungent and Barbed

PUNGENT vs BARBED: ADJECTIVE

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid.
Pointed.
To the point; sharp.
Penetrating, biting, or caustic.
Affecting the organs of taste or smell with a sharp acrid sensation.
Capable of wounding
Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.
Having a strong odor that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.
Sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell
Having a sharp and stiff point.
Strong and sharp
Having a strong taste that stings the tongue, said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste.

Capable of wounding
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Having barbs.
Cutting; stinging.
Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See barded (which is the proper form.)
Furnished with a barb or barbs.
A wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.
Bearded (also applied to roses).

Synonyms Sharp, stinging, keen, peppery, acrid, caustic. Piquant, Pungent, Poignant. That which is piquant is just tart enough to be agreeable; that which is pungent is so tart that, if it were more so, it would be positively disagreeable; that which is poignant is likely to prove actually disagreeable to most persons. Pungent is manifestly figurative when not applied to the sense of taste, or, less often, of smell; piquant is similar, but less forcible; poignant is now used chiefly of mental states, etc., as poignant grief, or of things affecting the mind, as poignant wit.
Hence, sharply affecting the mind; curt and expressive; caustic; racy; biting.
Sharply affecting the sense of smell: as, pungent snuff.
Affecting the tongue like small sharp points; stinging; acrid.
Sharp and painful; poignant.
Strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"
In entomology, fitted for piercing or penetrating: as, a pungent ovipositor.
Specifically — In botany, terminating gradually in a hard sharp point, as the lobes of the holly-leaf.
Piercing; sharp.
In ichthyology, stiff and sharp-pointed: as, a pungent spine.

Furnished with barbs, as an arrow, the point of a fish-hook, and the like: as, “arrows barbed with fire,”
“a barbed proboscis,”
In heraldry: Having barbs: said of the rose used as a bearing. The barbs are commonly colored green, and the blazon is a rose gules barbed proper.
Having gills or wattles, as a cock: as, a cock sable, barbed or (that is, a black cock having golden gills). Also called wattled.
Having the ends made with barbs like those of an arrow-head: said especially of a cross of this form. Also called bearded.
Same as barded.
Shaved; trimmed; having the beard dressed.

Bitter, Odor, Scent, Tart, Alliaceous, Nipping, Hot, Biting, Sarcastic, Barbed, Spicy, Garlicky, Gingery, Peppery, Acrid

Barbellate, Burry, Nipping, Armed, Briery, Briary, Spiny, Thorny, Burred, Bristled, Pungent, Biting, Bristly, Prickly, Sarcastic

Bitter, Odor, Scent, Tart, Alliaceous, Nipping, Hot, Biting, Sarcastic, Barbed, Spicy, Garlicky, Gingery, Peppery, Acrid

Barbellate, Burry, Nipping, Armed, Briery, Briary, Spiny, Thorny, Burred, Bristled, Pungent, Biting, Bristly, Prickly, Sarcastic

And the toilet had barbed wire around it.
But whod want to touch barbed wire anyway?.
Barbed wire and similar fence on private property.
Use of bait and barbed hooks is permitted.
An avalanche of barbed missiles flew about them.
Barbed heads plunged into its black eye sockets.
There was also barbed wire around the building.
Essentially the same as the barbed wire match, however the barbed wire is replaced by Razorwire in all instances.
The barbed nature of barbed wire can poke and scratch, making it a poor choice for urban environments.
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