having a strong effect on your feelings, especially in a way that makes you feel sad synonym moving a poignant image/moment/memory, etc. Her face was a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
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NAmE//ˈpɔɪnyənsi//
noun [uncountable] the poignancy of parting and separation Of particular poignancy was the photograph of their son with his sisters, taken the day before he died. adverbSee poignant in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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