Synonyms:
affecting, poignant, touching
Meaning: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"
Synonyms:
poignant
Meaning: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"
Usage examples
Assailed by poignant doubts
These encounters with strange children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of the environs of Paris.
How he had loved her, in those dead yesterdays, and how she had loved him! The poignant sweetness of it came back, changed by some fatal alchemy into bitterness.
Without waiting instructions from England and with poignant memory of Oregon, Governor Douglas at once clapped on a licence of twenty-one shillings a month for mining privileges under the British crown.