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Another word for incisive

incisive Synonyms

incisive

modif.

Sarcastic
penetrating, cutting, biting, sharp, severe; see also sarcastic.
Intelligent
trenchant, penetrating, perceptive, clever, bright, profound; see also intelligent 1.

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; trenchant implies clean-cut expression that results in sharply defined categories, differences, etc. a trenchant analysis; cutting implies incisive qualities but also connotes such harshness or sarcasm as to hurt the feelings his cutting allusion to her inefficiency; biting implies a caustic or stinging quality that makes a deep impression on the mind his biting satire

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Another word for incisive

adjective

Possessing or displaying perceptions of great accuracy and sensitivity:

acute, keen¹, penetrating, perceptive, probing, sensitive, sharp, trenchant. See careful, sharp

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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.
Magnetic in personality, incisive and powerful in manner of expression, he was in his prime one of the most eloquent of American pulpit orators.
Diihring's clear, incisive writing is disfigured by arrogance and ill-temper, failings which may be extenuated on the ground of his physical affliction.

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