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incisive.

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

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
  1. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)

  2. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process) Accurate and sharply focused. (of an account)

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

    An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.
  4. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.

  5. Of or relating to the incisors.

    relational
    the incisive bones, the premaxillaries
Where this word comes from

Late Middle English (in the sense “cutting, penetrating”), borrowed from Medieval Latin incīsīvus, from incīdō (“to cut in, cut through”) + -īvus (“-ive”, adjectival suffix). Compare Middle French incisif.

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