stinging has definitions from the field of medicine
1
[ adjective ] causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks

Synonyms

prickling tingling

Examples

"a prickling blush of embarrassment" "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep" "a stinging nettle" "the stinging windblown sleet"

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

McBride staggered into the street , flopped sprawling in the stinging dust .

Related terms

painful

2
[ adjective ] (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

Synonyms

edged cutting

Examples

"cutting remarks" "edged satire" "a stinging comment"

Related terms

unkind

3
[ adjective ] having a sting or the capacity to sting

Examples

"stinging insects" "stinging nettles"

Related terms

stingless

4
[ noun ] (medicine) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

Synonyms

sting

Examples

"the sting of death" "he felt the stinging of nettles"

Related terms

pain bite prick

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