incisive

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
    — An incisive, high voice.
  5. Of or relating to the incisors. relational
    — the incisive bones, the premaxillaries

词形变化

more incisive comparative most incisive superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
incisive bone incisive canal incisive fossa incisively incisiveness incisivity interincisive maxilloincisive nasoincisive unincisive

词源

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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