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incisive🔊

(of a person or mental process) Intelligently analytical and concise.

(of an account) Accurate and sharply focused.

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

📑 Synonyms: decisive forthright
💬 Quotations
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.

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

📑 Synonyms: sharp acute sarcastic biting

(anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.