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Trenchant

Definition: Trenchant

Trenchant

Adjective

1. Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism".

2. Characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument".

3. Clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trenchant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Trenchant \Trench"ant\, adjective. [Old French expression trenchant, French tranchant, p. pr. See Trench, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Trenchant

Synonyms: clear-cut (adj), distinct (adj), hard-hitting (adj), searching (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Trenchant

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affirmation

Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable.

Conciseness

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Disapprobation

Satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious; sparing of praise, grudging praise.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Feeling

Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.

Importance

Significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti.

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Vigor

Adjective: vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Trenchant

English words defined with "trenchant": hard-hittingTrenchand. (references)
Specialty definitions using "trenchant": DurandanaFakarSword-makers. (references)
Etymologies containing "trenchant": IntrenchantTrenchand. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Trenchant

DomainTitle

Books

  • Power Quotes: 4,000 Trenchant Soundbites on Leadership & Liberty, Treason & Triumph, Sacrifice & Scandal, Risk & Rebellion, Weakness & War, and other (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Trenchant

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Ukraine

The national affiliate of Reporters Without Borders reported that 28 similar incidents of physical and verbal harassment against journalists occurred during the year and that 4 had been killed, allegedly due to their trenchant reporting about local and national political authorities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Trenchant

"Trenchant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Trenchant" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)95%3855,818
Noun (proper)2.5%1339,140
Noun (singular)2.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%40N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trenchant

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trenchant

10
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Modern Translation: Trenchant

Language Translations for "trenchant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, vigorous, violent). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فعال (active, businesslike, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, energetic, forceful, forcible, functional, living, operative, potent, reliable, valid, virtuous), ‏محدد المعالم, ‏واضح (apparent, bold, broad, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, visible), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong), ‏باتر (keen). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ясно изразен (emphatic, pronounced), язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), сбит и изразителен, рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

鞭闢入裡 (incisive, penetrated), 深刻 (Acute, Profound). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough), břitký (crushing, incisive, poignant, smart). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نافذ (Dominant, Incisive, Pervasive, Predominant), قطعی (Absolute, Categorical, Conclusive, Cretain, Decisive, Definite, Irrevocable, Last, Peremptory, Positive, Sure, Ultimatum, Uncompromising, Unconditional), قاطع (Categorical, Clincher, Conclusive, Crucial, Decisive, Incisive, Overbearing, Secant, Unanswerable), تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Sharp, Shrill), برنده (Conductive, Cutter, Cutting, Incisive, Winner), بران . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kirpeä (bitter, pungent). (various references)

   

French

  

tranchant, mordant, incisif, efficace. (various references)

   

German

  

treffsicher (accurate, apt, sound, unerring, unerringly), schneidend (biting, bitter, cutting, incisive, incisively, keenly, piercing, scathing, scissoring, searing, sharp, shrill, slicing), scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), einschneidend (cutting in, drastic, far reaching, gashing, incising, nicking, radical), beißend (acid, astringent, barbed, biting, bitter, cutting, gnawing, mordacious, mordant, mordantly, nippy, pungent, scathing, sharp, tart, venomous). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοπτερόσ (incisive, keen, sharp), κοφτερόσ (edgy, incisive, keen, keen on, sharp), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, keen, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, twang), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, keen, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, snappy, spirited, sturdy, tearing, vigorous), וקב (incisive, penetrating, perforating, piercing, poignant, scathing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

metszõ (biting, crisp, incisive, mordant, secant, shrill, slashing, strident), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tagliente (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, clipping, cutting, edgy, keen, lurid, nipping, sharp, slicing, stridently), preciso (accurate, careful, clean, close, definite, exact, identic, identical, on time, particular, positive, precise, prompt, pronounced, punctual, rigorous, strict, thorough, true), incisivo (incisive, incisor, punchy). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

랄한 (Acidic, Acrimonious, tart). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchanttray

   

Portuguese

  

vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, hale, hard, healthful, healthy, hefty, lively, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppy, pithy, racy, red-blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, stinging, tart, virulent), incisivo (cutting, incisive, nippy), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, pithy, potent, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strenuous, strong, two-fisted, vibrant, vigorous, virile), cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, incisive, keen, nipping, nippy, parky, slashing), agudo (acerbic, acute, argute, brazen, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out-and-out, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, poignant, pungent, sharp, shrill, smart, treble). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tranşant, tãios (acid, biting, clipping, curt, cutting, edgy, keen, mordacious, nippy, pointed, roughly, severe, severely, sharp, sharply, shortly, spiky, tart), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sturdy, sure, surely, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, virile), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keen, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, whetted, witty). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

острый (acrid, acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, zappy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, vigorous, vivid, well knit), pronicljiv (argute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, keen, perspicacious, piercing, poignant), prodoran (argute, cutting, penetrative, piercing, pointed), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, twang). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vigoroso (animated, brisk, emphatic, forceful, forcible, full-blooded, hearty, lusty, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, sinewy, strong, sturdy, thrustful, tough, vigorous, youthful), incisivo (incisive, incisor, nicking). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kraftfull (emphatic, energetic, forceful, lusty, powerful, red blooded, strong, telling, vigorous, virile). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart), etkili (commanding, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, forceful, forcible, hefty, influential, moving, operative, penetrating, penetrative, poignant, potent, powerful, sovereign, swinging, telling), dokunaklı (acidulous, affective, barbed, biting, eloquent, expressive, incisive, mordant, moving, pathetic, poignant, pointed, pungent, scathing, sour, speaking, touching), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, vitriolic, worry). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, nude, obvious, orotund, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, robust), різкий (abrupt, acerbic, acrid, acute, argute, bluffy, brief, brusque, curt, harsh, nippy, point blank, raucous, snappish, stark, vehement, violent), гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, zestful). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sắc bén (acute), mạnh mẽ rõ r ng, đánh thép. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Trenchant

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old French900-1400

trenchant. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Trenchant

Derivations

Words beginning with "trenchant": trenchantly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Trenchant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Premchand, Renckhart, Renihan, tenchant, traenchant, tranchant, tranchet, tranchette, trechant, trenchang, trenchent, Tronchet, Truchart. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Trenchant"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "trenchant" (pronounced tre"nkhunt)
6-e" n kh u n tpenchant.
5-n kh u n tancient.
4-kh u n tmerchant.
3-u n tabandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Trenchant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-n-r-t-t"

-2 letters: chanter, chatter, enchant, entrant, etchant, ratchet, tranche.

-3 letters: anther, canner, canter, carnet, centra, hatter, natter, nectar, rachet, ratten, recant, tanner, tanrec, tenant, thenar, threat, trance, trench.

-4 letters: anent, antre, caner, caret, carte, cater, chant, chare, chart, cheat, chert, crane, crate, earth, enact, hance, hater, heart, henna, nacre, nance, natch, neath, rance, ranch, ratch.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-n-r-t-t"
 

+2 letters: trenchantly.

 

+3 letters: nonarchitect.

 

+4 letters: nonarchitects, nontheatrical.

 

+5 letters: nontheoretical, nontherapeutic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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