Associations to the word «Piquant»

Wiktionary

PIQUANT, adjective. Engaging; charming.
PIQUANT, adjective. Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
PIQUANT, adjective. (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.

Dictionary definition

PIQUANT, adjective. Having an agreeably pungent taste.
PIQUANT, adjective. Engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language".
PIQUANT, adjective. Attracting or delighting; "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne