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Definition of Incisive
1. Adjective. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions. "Frequent penetrative observations"
Similar to: Perceptive
Derivative terms: Acuteness, Incisiveness, Keenness, Penetrate, Sharpness
2. Adjective. Suitable for cutting or piercing. "Incisive teeth"
Definition of Incisive
1. a. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
Definition of Incisive
1. Adjective. (context: of an action) Quick and direct. ¹
2. Adjective. Intelligently analytical and concise. ¹
3. Adjective. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting. ¹
4. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incisive
1. penetrating [adj]
Medical Definition of Incisive
1. 1. Having the power or quality of cutting. 2. Pertaining to the incisor teeth. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incisive
Literary usage of Incisive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Field, who was always ready for a pamphlet war, issued the first of many productions
of his incisive pen, in which the dignity of style, and the profusion ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Addison, to the brief, incisive, altogether British sentences of Bacon, to the
energetic and robust periods of Southey, Carlyle will displease you. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... in the Book of Acts. In these writings he evinced the thorough, incisive, and
yet contained style of treatment that he showed in the professor's chair. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The colour of many corpuscles will cohere bf being precipitated together, and be
destroyed by the effusion of very piercing and incisive liquors. ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The principal differences in the profile relate to the form of the incisive bones,
which in R. Indica» advance as far M the bones of the nose, ..."
6. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: A Critical Monograph by Ford Madox Ford (1907)
"The Brotherhood—save always for the life that it still has in the incisive brush
of Mr Holman Hunt— has been dead for nearly half a century. ..."
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