Stinging

Definition: Stinging

Stinging

Adjective

1. Causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet".

2. Having a sting or the capacity to sting; "stinging insects"; "stinging nettles".

3. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment".

Noun

1. A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles".

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

Date "stinging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Stinging

Pain

Irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy; awkward.

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Crosswords: Stinging

Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear (Drive; performing artist: Incubus)

I prefer a sunless sky, to the glittering and stinging in my eyes (Tonight and the Rest of My Life; performing artist: Nina Gordon)

Every heartbeat stinging (I DON'T WANT TO WAIT; performing artist: Paula Cole)

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Books

• A Guide to Biting and Stinging Insects and Other Arthropods (reference)

• Stinging Trees and Wait-A-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist (reference)

• What Bit Me?: Identifying Hawai'I's Stinging and Biting Insects and Their Kin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stinging the Blues (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The bane of Chesapeake Bay swimmers, the stinging sea nettle, Chrysaora quiquecirrha. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Stinging hydroid, Plumularia sp. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Cartoon of giant mosquito stinging a man sleeping. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A stinging and stifling smoke amid which writhed, with dull and feeble groans, the wounded and the dying

The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging air and covered their noses from it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Less stinging but still helpful is the nasal spray Nasalcrom (cromolyn sodium). (references)

Malathion may cause stinging, especially if the scalp has open sores from scratching. (references)

These flashes may eventually create a stinging sensation that makes you feel a little uncomfortable. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

The Government generally tolerates satirical and often stinging editorials in the opposition parties' dailies. (references)

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Expressions using "stinging": cutting and stinging waste ♦ stinging cell ♦ stinging hair ♦ stinging jellyfish ♦ stinging nettle ♦ stinging reply. Additional references.

Beginning with "stinging": stinging-cell, stinging-cells, stinging-nettles.

Ending with "stinging": strongly-stinging.

Albanian

thumbues (biting, caustic), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, trenchant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لسع (bite, biting, dig, hurt with words, nettle, offend, sting), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, keen, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, tart, waspish), ‏لدغ (bite, biting, burr, lisp, nettle, pinch, sting, strike). (various references)

Bulgarian 

язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, incisive, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), който жили, който пари, парлив (acrid, burning, hot, peppery, sharp). (various references)

Chinese 

蜇 (STING, stung). (various references)

Danish

stor naelde (annual nettle, great nettle, greater nettle, stinging nettle), calor mordax (stinging heat), brændehår (stinging hairs). (various references)

Dutch

stekendehitte (stinging heat), seta urens (stinging hairs), scherpkantig en puntig afval (cutting and stinging waste), grote brandnetel (annual nettle, great nettle, greater nettle, stinging nettle), calor mordicans (stinging heat), calor mordax (stinging heat), brandhaar (stinging hairs), bijtendehitte (stinging heat). (various references)

Finnish

teräväsärmäinen jäte (cutting and stinging waste), teräväreunainen jäte (cutting and stinging waste), nokkonen (nettle). (various references)

French

sensation cuisante, piqûre (stick, sting, stitching), cuisant, cinglant. (various references)

German

stechend (biting, jabbing, penetrating, penetratingly, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, pricking, prickly, pungent, sharp, twinging). (various references)

Greek 

δηκτικόσ (acrimonious, biting, caustic, cutting, mordant, nippy, poignant, pointed, scathing, snappish). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממאיר (malign, malignant, pernicious, terminal), עוקצ� ות (mordancy, pungency, sarcasm, waspishness), �"כש�" (bite of snake, striking). (various references)

Hungarian

szúrós (barbed, bristly, fling, hirsute, intent, nasty, prickly, pungent, spiky, stingy). (various references)

Indonesian

menduri. (various references)

Italian

sferzante, pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nipping, nippy, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, pungent, racy, scathing, sharp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刺々しい (harsh, sharp, snappy, thorny), 刺刺しい (harsh, sharp, snappy, thorny). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

と�'と�'しい (harsh, sharp, snappy, thorny). (various references)

Korean 

찌름 (Pinking, Poking, Prick, Pricking, Prodding, Spearing, stabbing). (various references)

Manx

guinnagh (painful). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingingstay.(various references)

Portuguese

que faz arder, que causa dor fina, pungente (bitter, harrowing, penetrating, piquant, pungent, salt, smart), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home, hot, juicy, mordacious, nippy, peppery, poignant, pungent, racy, risque, rough, salty, savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, tart), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, double-tongued, incisive, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint-eyed, tart, trenchant, virulent), contundente (bruising, pointed, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, slashing, squint-eyed), acerado (steely). (various references)

Romanian

usturãtor (acrid, biting, burning, cutting, mordant, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, shrewd, smart, smarting), jignitor (abusive, cutting, harsh, hurtful, insulting, invidious, obloquious, offensive, offensively, reproachful), 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, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), înţepãtor (biting, cutting, piquant, prickly, pungent, sharp, strong), ţepos (caustic, hirsute, rough, spiky, spiny, thorny). (various references)

Russian 

язвительный (acrimonious, biting, catty, epigrammatic, incisive, punchy, snide, waspish), жалящий, имеющий жало. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koji ubada, koji žeže. (various references)

Spanish

punzante (biting, breathtaking, piercing, poignant, pricking, pungent, shooting), escozor (grief, smart). (various references)

Swedish

stingande (lancinating). (various references)

Turkish

sokma (biting, insertion, obtrusion, sticking in), sokan, sızlatan, 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, strong, tart, trenchant), kaşındıran (irritating, itching, scratchy), kaşındırıcı (irritating, itching), kırıcı (breaker, cutting, disobliging, galling, harsh, injurious, invidious, offending, scathing, scorching, shocking, unkind), incitici (galling, hurtful, impolite, injurious, offending), iğneleyici (biting, cutting, mordacious, mordant, nippy, pricking, sarcastic, sarky, vitriolic, wry), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), acıtan (painful), ısıran. (various references)

Ukrainian

ущипливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, caustic, cutting, nipping, pointed, tart), пекучий (baking, burning, parching, scorching, sizzling, sultry, torrid). (various references)

Welsh

colynnog. (various references)

acer, Urtica dioeca, Urtica dioica. (various references)

dahâkem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stinging": stingingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stinging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ittingen, stanging, Stigand, tinging, Tsangano. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: signing, singing, tinging.

-2 letters: siting, tining.

-3 letters: intis, sting, tings.

-4 letters: gigs, gins, gist, gits, inns, inti, nisi, nits, sign, sing, snit, ting, tins.

-5 letters: gig, gin, git, inn, ins, its, nit, sin, sit, tin, tis.

+1 letter: ingesting, signeting, stringing.

+2 letters: astringing, glistening, lightnings, outsinging, stingingly, stringings, unsighting.

+3 letters: agglutinins, designating, gunsmithing, infightings, instigating, magnetising, restringing, signposting, songwriting, swingingest, unstringing.

+4 letters: constringing, disgruntling, gunsmithings, hamstringing, ingatherings, nightingales, outdesigning, songwritings, thanksgiving.

+5 letters: antismuggling, disentangling, enregistering, extinguishing, investigating, isoagglutinin, straightening, thanksgivings, transfiguring.