cuisant
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]cuisant
Adjective
[edit]cuisant (feminine cuisante, masculine plural cuisants, feminine plural cuisantes)
- (pain) stinging, burning
- (figuratively) crushing, bitter
- un échec cuisant ― a crushing defeat, a bitter failure
Further reading
[edit]- “cuisant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.