A.piercing, sharp, keen, “βέλος” Il.11.270: metaph., “δριμεῖα μάχη” 15.696, Hes.Sc.261; “δ. χόλος” Il.18.322; “μένος” Od.24.319; “ἄχος” Hes.Sc.457; “θυμός” A.Ch.391 (lyr.).
II. of things which affect the eyes or taste, keen, pungent, acrid, of smoke, “δριμύτατος καπνῶν” Ar.V.146; of radish, etc., opp. γλυκύς, X.Mem.1.4.5, cf. Pl.Com.154 (Sup.); “χυμός” Arist.de An.422b13; ὀσμαί ib.421a30; “δριμέσιν ἰητρεύειν” with pungent drugs, Hp.Fract.27; “δ. οἶνος” Luc.Merc.Cond.18. Adv. -έως: Comp. “δριμύτερον, ὄζειν” Arist.Pr.907a13; “ῥεύματος δριμύτερον γενομένου” Hp.VM18.
III. metaph., of persons, bitter, fierce, “ἀλάστωρ” A.Ag.1501 (lyr.); “ἄγροικος” Ar.Eq.808, etc.; also, keen, shrewd, “κρόταλον” E.Cyc.104; “ἔντονοι καὶ δ.” Pl.Tht.173a; δ. καὶ δικανικός ib. 175d; “δ. ἐν τῷ ἀποκρίνεσθαι” Arist. Top.156b37; “λόγος δριμύτατος” Id.SE182b37 (but λέξις and λόγος δ. of striking turns of phrase, Hermog.Id.1.2, 2.5): neut. as Adv., δριμὺ βλέπειν look bitter, Ar.Ra. 562; but also to look sharply, keenly, Pl.R.519a, Luc.Symp.16; “ἐνορᾶν” Id.Cat.3, Ael.VH14.22, D.C.59.26:—regul. Adv. δριμέως, Anaxandr.15.3; “ἐρασθῆναι” Ael.NA7.15; “δριμύτατα ἀλγεῖν” Id.VH 12.1.
