Synonyms for Stinging:
adj.
•acid (adjective)mordant, offensive.
•knifelike (adjective)
Gnawing.
•painful (adjective)
distressful, scathing, sore, unpleasant, excruciating, smarting, acute, uncomfortable, chafing, mordant, disagreeable, piercing, irritating, bothersome, aching, bitter, unbearable, grueling, agonizing, miserable, inflaming, hurtful, arduous, woeful, oppressive, offensive, Gnawing, burning, anguishing, cutting, biting, Besetting, painful, wrenching, horrendous, throbbing, stabbing, Torturing., grievous, annoying, troublesome, withering, odious, Cramping, cruel, harrowing, aggravating, insufferable, Irksome, burdensome, crushing, tormenting, trying, severe.
•sensation (adjective)
prickly, Crawly, titillating, itchy, tingly, smooth, creepy, rough, thrilling.
•sharp (adjective)
stabbing.
n.
truculent, slashing, scathing, resounding, corrosive, sound, respect, attack, outright, thorough, in depth, good, acerbic, total, astringent, pure, mordant, utter, vitriolic, mordacious, trenchant, unadulterated, acidic. angry, achy, burning, chronic, chapped, crippling, agonising, bad. heavy, unnatural, troubling, cramped, unsettling, strange, claustrophobic, strained, tight. •sensation (noun)roughness, Prickliness, titillation, itchiness, smoothness, crawling, Creepiness.
•stinging (noun)
painful, unkind, sting, edged, prickling, cutting, tingling.
v.
•paining (verb)racking, distressing, suffering, Discomforting, Afflicting, Paining, hurting, stitching.
Other synonyms:
astringent, mordacious, acidic. mordant, scathing, vitriolic, slashing, corrosive. trenchant, truculent. acerbic. •caustic
burning.
•Other relevant words:
cramped, resounding, achy, good, crippling, thorough, vitriolic, unsettling, attack, burning, edged, mordacious, acerbic, unnatural, slashing, in depth, respect, strained, mordant, acidic, troubling, astringent, tight, prickling, scathing, agonising, chapped, utter, heavy, unadulterated, sting, strange, sound, pure, chronic, outright, bad, corrosive, total, trenchant, truculent, unkind, claustrophobic, tingling, angry.