| Main Entry: | piercing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense to the senses |
Synonyms: |
acute, agonizing, arctic, biting, bitter, blaring, cold, deafening, earsplitting, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, freezing, frosty, high, high-pitched, keen, knifelike, loud, numbing, painful, penetrating, powerful, racking, raw, roaring, severe, sharp, shattering, shooting, shrill, stabbing, stentorian, stentorious, thin, treble, wintry |
Antonyms: |
low, soft, weak |