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