Incisive
[ɪn'saɪsɪv]
Definition
(a.) Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cutting.[2]. Sharp, acute, sarcastic, satirical, severe, biting.
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Examples
- The most incisive comment on politics to-day is indifference. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by my friend's incisive reasoning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was he who at once, in an incisive and positive tone, opened the conversation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This patient, optimistic view of the outcome of experiments has remained part of his character down to this day, just as his painstaking, minute, incisive methods are still unchanged. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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