incisive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suitable for cutting or piercing

   Incisive teeth.

2. 2
   adj

   Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action)

   An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.

3. 3
   adj

   Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.

   An incisive, high voice.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to the incisors.

   The incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

Common collocations

• incisive intellect Adjective + noun

Late Middle English (in the sense “cutting, penetrating”), borrowed from Medieval Latin incīsīvus, from incīdō (“to cut in, cut through”) + -īvus (“-ive”, adjectival suffix). Compare Middle French incisif.

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