trenchant
adj/ˈtɹɛnʃənt/
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).
- derived from trenchant
Definitions
Fitted to trench or cut
Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
- The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
Keen
Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.
- trenchant wit
- His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
- His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for trenchant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA