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incisive
(encz) | incisive,kousavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Incisive
(gcide) | Incisive \In*ci"sive\, a. [Cf. F. incisif.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating,
as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute;
sarcastic; biting; trenchant. "An incisive, high voice."
--G. Eliot.
[1913 Webster]
And her incisive smile accrediting
That treason of false witness in my blush. --Mrs.
Browning.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the incisors; incisor; as, the
incisive bones, the premaxillaries.
[1913 Webster]
3. Clearly and succinctly stated, with penetrating insight
into the issue at hand; as, an incisive comment.
[PJC] |
incisive
(wn) | incisive
adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine
distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and
politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike
reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a
fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative
observations" [syn: acute, discriminating,
incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating,
penetrative, piercing, sharp]
2: suitable for cutting or piercing; "incisive teeth" |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
incisive
(encz) | incisive,kousavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
incisively
(encz) | incisively, |
incisiveness
(encz) | incisiveness,kousavost n: Zdeněk Brožincisiveness,pronikavost např. kritiky Zdeněk Brož |
incisiveness
(gcide) | incisiveness \incisiveness\ n.
keenness and forcefulnelss of thought or expression or
intellect.
Syn: trenchancy.
[WordNet 1.5] |
incisive
(wn) | incisive
adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine
distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and
politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike
reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a
fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative
observations" [syn: acute, discriminating,
incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating,
penetrative, piercing, sharp]
2: suitable for cutting or piercing; "incisive teeth" |
incisively
(wn) | incisively
adv 1: in an incisive manner; "he was incisively critical"
2: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely"
[syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant:
imprecisely, inexactly] |
incisiveness
(wn) | incisiveness
n 1: keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or
intellect [syn: incisiveness, trenchancy] |
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