punchier; punchiest
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: zesty
It is an elegant dish, although the sauce seems overly polite now. I remember it when the fresh coriander was an intense and punchy flavor.—
Caroline Bates
Caroline Bates2
: dazed, punch-drunk
… I arrived in Paris after a thirteen-hour flight, unwashed, unshaved, punchy from jet lag, discombobulated …—David Berlinski
David BerlinskiSynonyms
- addle
- addled
- addlepated
- bedeviled
- befogged
- befuddled
- bemused
- bewildered
- bushed [chiefly Australian]
- confounded
- confused
- dazed
- distracted
- dizzy
- dopey
- dopy
- fogged
- mixed-up
- muddleheaded
- muzzy
- pixilated
- pixillated
- punch-drunk
- raddled
- shell-shocked
- silly
- slaphappy
- spaced-out
- spaced
- spacey
- spacy
- stunned
- stupefied
- zonked
- zonked-out
Examples of punchy in a Sentence
shrimp in a punchy sauce
She was punchy with fatigue.
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Integral to the band’s hip-hop-esque danceability are the punchy grooves of drummer Brad Hargreaves, often accented by loops, and always with expressively dynamic production.
—Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 28 June 2024
The punchy 3-minute melodic house track has an insistent 120 BPM beat and wobbly synth arpeggios, and was mixed by Mark Yardley of Stanton Warriors.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 24 June 2024
Switching to the Music: The punchy EQ preset somewhat filled in that gap, but the high-mid boosts made the track sound less natural.
—PCMAG, 24 June 2024
With its 170 museums, innumerable galleries, a world-famous annual art fair, architectural history and punchy street murals, the home of Frida Kahlo sits deservedly alongside Rome or Barcelona as an art capital of the world.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Feb. 2024
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Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 28 June 2024
The punchy 3-minute melodic house track has an insistent 120 BPM beat and wobbly synth arpeggios, and was mixed by Mark Yardley of Stanton Warriors.
—Spin Contributor, SPIN, 24 June 2024
Switching to the Music: The punchy EQ preset somewhat filled in that gap, but the high-mid boosts made the track sound less natural.
—PCMAG, 24 June 2024
With its 170 museums, innumerable galleries, a world-famous annual art fair, architectural history and punchy street murals, the home of Frida Kahlo sits deservedly alongside Rome or Barcelona as an art capital of the world.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 26 Feb. 2024
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“Punchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/punchy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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