incisive
About 0.84 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Intelligently analytical and concise. Accurate and sharply focused.
- adjective Accurate and sharply focused.
- adjective Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression.
An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.
- adjective Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
- adjective Of or relating to the incisors.
the incisive bones, the premaxillaries
Similar words
intelligent perceptive keen discriminating acute penetrative penetrating piercing sharp knifelike
Often followed by
and analysis foramen canal comments criticism critique in mind
Word family
incisively incisiveness incisivenesses
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