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词汇 punchy
释义 punchy
adjective
uk /ˈpʌn.tʃi/ us /ˈpʌn.tʃi/

punchyadjective (POWERFUL)


expressing something effectively and with power, often using only a few words or short words: 富有感染力的
a short punchy presentation/speech富有感染力的简短报告/演讲
The article is written in his usual punchy style.这篇文章秉承了他一贯的富有感染力的风格。
adding emphasis or excitement to something:
The collection comes in a number of punchy colours.
The band burst onto the scene with the fresh, laddish exuberance and punchy melodies of their debut album.
Her writing was punchy, conversational, sometimes slangy.
She starts each chapter with such a punchy first line that the reader is immediately drawn in.
We felt that the signature tune needed spicing up, and to be given a punchier feel.
punchy political bumper stickers
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Efficient and effective
be firing on all cylindersidiom
businesslike
clockwork
come together
cut through something
developed
dispatch
efficiently
ergonomic
ergonomically
ergonomics
high-functioning
seamless
seamlessly
smoothly
snappily
snappy
work wonders/miraclesidiom
workable
worth your saltidiom

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Exciting and interesting

punchyadjective (PRICE)


UKinformal
(of a price) rather high; higher than is expected or usual:
We put the house on the market at what was quite a punchy price, but it sold almost immediately.
The restaurant has punchy pricing but enjoyable exclusivity.
My bill for four dishes and four wines ended up being just over SEK 1300, which is quite punchy even by the fairly expensive standards of Stockholm.
Having helped extract a rather punchy price for the company, he became divisional head of a US sportswear giant.
Sellers have been warned against punchy and over-ambitious pricing.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costs & expenses
admission charge
aliment
all in
at cost
at someone's expense
bank charges
outgo
overrun
palimony
price point
pricing
redress
remittance
reserve
RPI
spend
transfer fee
tune
upkeep
whack

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Costing too much

punchyadjective (TIRED)


USinformal
tired and confused, especially after dealing with a difficult situation: (尤指经历困境后)精神恍惚的,糊涂的
I'm a little bit punchy but I'm okay.
Synonym
punch-drunk
If the committee members had been feeling a bit punchy by that time, it would have been understandable.
Marketing projects make me punchy.
Legislators were punchy, angry and frustrated on Monday after failing to pass a tax plan that would finance the state budget.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tired and making tired
all in
anti-fatigue
at your worstidiom
be dead on your feetidiom
be fit/ready to dropidiom
finish something off
fit to dropidiom
fragile
frazzled
gassed
haggard
knackered
shell-shocked
sleep-deprived
sleepily
sleepiness
sleepy
stonkered
strung out
zonked

Examples of punchy


punchy
Very short sentences, like the last one, are good for making punchy points.
Like all such essay collections, this one has uneven qualities, but most of the contributions are punchy and succinct.
Quite simply, it is not punchy enough; it is not positive in promoting this country's defence industry in the face of very aggressive opposition.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The leaflet, which is crisp, punchy and comprehensible, will shortly be available.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He was outstanding on the pitch, if a little punchy.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Some of them are rather dense and a couple of pints of lager can convert boastful bores into punchy paranoids.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I also welcome the ideas of having more political, frank discussions and short and punchy conclusions.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He showed that having had a little time out, he was just as punchy as ever.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Courvoisier covers the range from lush chordal progressions to punchy clusters to light prepared-piano tinkles, constantly evolving a florid sense of drama.
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It's a bit more widescreen, a bit more punchy, but the eclecticism of the first record's still there.
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Therefore, it allows for drummers to get a punchier sound of out their toms.
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This gave his harmonica tone a punchy mid-range sound that could be heard above an electric guitar.
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Each of these gets a relatively brief, punchy, and fairly technical description.
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He is known for his slice of life lyrics and punchy performance style.
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The videos are largely in animated form and are more light-hearted, entertaining and punchy than the corporate run-of-the-mill ethics training videos.
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