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incisive - Dictionary definition and meaning for incisive

INCISIVE

  • (adj.) suitable for cutting or piercing

    "incisive teeth"

  • (adj.) 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"

    synonyms : acute , discriminating , keen , knifelike , penetrating , penetrative , piercing , sharp

    Roger was an acute observer of politics and politicians. -added by naila_inlas

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for incisive

  • (Tag: English) incisive can be correlated with our incisor teeth. which is very sharp both in human and animal, and they use it to cut food thus incisive= incisor= cutting

    added by chandrima    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) Incisive-> It has come from Incision cutting, esp. by a surgeon. Also , Incision sounds similar to scissor (which are your four sharp teeth) used for cutting.

    added by adi_agarwal    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) incisive sounds like insensitive >>> some one who is insensitive can kill someone with some sharp device or his words, etc

    added by RajeshBorkar    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) incisive---incisor...cisor which is used to cut something is sharp :)

    added by vamsikrrish17    editEdit Mnemonic

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