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adjective

Incisive adj.

Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, Sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting; trenchant. "An incisive, high voice." "And her incisive smile accrediting That treason of false witness in my blush."

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the incisive bones, the premaxillaries.

Clearly and succinctly stated, with penetrating insight into the issue at hand; as, an incisive comment.

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Etymology of 'Incisive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incisive" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chaps. 1, 9; and S. Low, The Governance of England (London, 1904), Chap. 1. A suggestive characterization is in the Introduction of W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (new ed., Boston, 1873). A more extended and very incisive analysis is Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, especially the Introduction and ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... incisive gaze met and held irresistibly the boy's wavering one. The sullen obstinacy of ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... Radnor suddenly raised his head and half turned back as if to speak, but thinking better of it, he resumed his chair and watched the approach of the detective with an angry frown. Clancy did not glance at Radnor, but gave his evidence in a quick incisive way which forced the breathless attention of every one in the room. He told without interruption the story of his arrival at Four-Pools and his conclusions in regard to the ha'nt and the theft; he omitted, however, all ...

— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster

... Even Bull, tired as he was, noted the keenly incisive tone of it. He turned, and his steady eyes regarded the dark face of the lumberman speculatively. Then he smiled, and picked up his glass and drained the remains of ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... had taken his opening with his customary incisive shrewdness. The mention of Bacon had settled it, to his mind. Only one imaginable character of manuscript from the philosopher scholar-politician could have value enough to tempt a thief of Enderby's calibre. Enderby's expression told that the shot was a true one. As for Bertram, ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

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