incisive

Adjective Satellite

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  • "incisive comments"
  • "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"
• suitable for cutting or piercing
  • "incisive teeth"

Adj

• Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
• Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
• Accurate and sharply focused. (of an account)
• Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action)
• Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
• Of or relating to the incisors.

Adjective

• Penetrating, clear, and sharp; direct and keen.

Examples

• An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.
• His incisive play immediately shut down all of my potential high-scoring options.
• the incisive bones, the premaxillaries

Synonyms

acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, biting, decisive, forthright, sarcastic

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