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Another word for incisive

Adjective

  1. Possessing or displaying perceptions of great accuracy and sensitivity

    2. See also:

    sharp

    careful

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Another word for incisive

Modifier

  1. Sarcastic

    2. See also:

    sarcastic

  2. Intelligent

    3. See also:

    intelligent

Synonym Study

  • Biting implies a caustic or stinging quality that makes a deep impression on the mind his biting satire
  • Cutting implies incisive qualities but also connotes such harshness or sarcasm as to hurt the feelings his cutting allusion to her inefficiency
  • Trenchant implies clean-cut expression that results in sharply defined categories, differences, etc. a trenchant analysis
  • Incisive is applied to speech or writing that seems to penetrate directly to the heart of the matter, resulting in a clear and unambiguous statement an incisive criticism
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Sentence Examples

  • His arguments were marked by incisive humour and fertility of ideas.

  • As a public speaker his style was incisive, forceful and often eloquent, although he made no effort to practise oratory as an art.

  • His incisive way of putting things earned for him the title of the "Militant Bishop," but, as he himself remarked in.

  • Otherwise, when Beethoven has anything special for the violoncellos to say, he invariably softens and deepens their singularly incisive cantabile tones by doubling them with the violas.

  • Magnetic in personality, incisive and powerful in manner of expression, he was in his prime one of the most eloquent of American pulpit orators.

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