Incisive

Definitions: Incisive

Incisive

Adjective

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".

2. Very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect".

3. Suitable for cutting or piercing; "incisive teeth"; "the piercing needle".

Date "incisive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Etymology: Incisive \In*ci"sive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression incisif.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	1. having the power or quality of cutting. 2. pertaining to the incisor teeth. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Incisive

Synonyms: acute (adj), discriminating (adj), keen (adj), knifelike (adj), penetrating (adj), penetrative (adj), piercing (adj), sharp (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Feeling	Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.
Physical Energy	Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.
Vigor	Adjective: vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incisive

English words defined with "incisive": acute ♦ discriminating ♦ fastidious ♦ incisively, Incisory ♦ keen, knifelike ♦ penetrating, penetrative, piercing ♦ sharp. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incisive": incisive suture ♦ Nonodontogenic Cysts. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Incisive" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (biting, cutting, piercing).

Domain	Title
References	Incisive Media PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Locke on Freedom: An Incisive Study of the Thought of John Locke (reference) Presenting Canada and the Commonwealth : a booklet featuring one riddle, seven sceptical questions, seven incisive answers, an assortment of other varied and fascinating information, and, of course, a cast of millions (reference) Suicide an Incisive Look At Self Destruc (reference) The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks (reference) The Incisive Eye: Colin See-Paynton-Wood Engravings 1980-1995 (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Incisive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "Incisive" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.29%	140	26,789
Noun (proper)	0.71%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	141	N/A

Country	Name
United Kingdom	Incisive Media PLC
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Expression using "incisive": incisive suture. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "incisive": ever-incisive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "incisive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant). (various references)

Arabic		‏قاطع (boycott, break away, categorical, chip, conclusive, decisive, definite, disruption, disturb, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, interrupt, keen, partition, peremptory, positive, sharp, unqualified), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, intense, intensified, intensive, keen, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏ثاقب الفكر (perspicacious), ‏ثاقب البصر (sharp-eyed). (various references)

Bulgarian		язвителен (acerb, acerbic, acid, acidulated, acrid, acrimonious, adust, biting, cutting, mordant, poignant, pungent, sardonic, splenetic, stinging, trenchant, vinegary, vitriolic, waspish), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, rude, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), режещ, врязващ се, остър за ум (fine, quick, subtle). (various references)

Chinese		鞭闢入裡 (penetrated, trenchant), 尖�"� (Poignancy). (various references)

Czech		trefný (apt, fitting, snappy), pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, keen, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, pungent, screechy, shrill, strident, sweeping), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), břitký (crushing, poignant, smart, trenchant), úseèný (brief, crisp, curt, offhand, short, short-spoken, succinct). (various references)

Danish		incisiv (incisor). (various references)

Dutch		incisief. (various references)

Farsi		نافذ (Dominant, Pervasive, Predominant, Trenchant), قاطع (Categorical, Clincher, Conclusive, Crucial, Decisive, Overbearing, Secant, Trenchant, Unanswerable), تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Keen, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Sharp, Shrill, Trenchant), ثنایا (Incisor), دندان پیشین (Incisor), برنده (Conductive, Cutter, Cutting, Trenchant, Winner). (various references)

Finnish		iskevä (sharp), pureva (biting, mordant, sharp), kärkevä (cutting, pointed, sharp). (various references)

French		incisif, perspicace, mordant. (various references)

German		prägnant (concise, laconic, pithily, pithy, succinct, terse), schneidend (biting, bitter, cutting, incisively, keenly, piercing, scathing, scissoring, searing, sharp, shrill, slicing, trenchant). (various references)

Greek		κοπτερόσ (keen, sharp, trenchant), κοφτερόσ (edgy, keen, keen on, sharp, trenchant), ρωμαλέοσ (brawny, hearty, husky, lusty, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy). (various references)

Hebrew		שורט, חותך (biting, decisive, secant, transversal), � וקב (penetrating, perforating, piercing, poignant, scathing, trenchant). (various references)

Hungarian		éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, keen, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant). (various references)

Indonesian		tajam (acrid, acrimonious, acute, brisk, edgy, keen, nippy, poignant). (various references)

Italian		incisivo (incisor, punchy, trenchant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		門歯 (incisive tooth, incisor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		も�"し (die in agony, incisive tooth, incisor). (various references)

Manx		geyre (abrupt, acrid, acute, austere, bitter, bold, bold promintary, censorious, cutting, discerning, edged, hard, high-pitched, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick of sight, sharp, sour, stiff, strict, stringent, twinging), foyral (keen, sharp, sharp-edged), foyragh (cutting, edged, keen, mordant, sharp, sharp-edged, steely). (various references)

Norwegian		skarpt. (various references)

Pig Latin		incisiveay

Portuguese		incisivo (cutting, incisor, nippy, trenchant). (various references)

Romanian		incisiv (biting, cutting), clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, broad, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable), în mod tãios, în mod incisiv. (various references)

Russian		острый (acrid, acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji seče, bridak. (various references)

Spanish		incisivo (incisor, nicking, trenchant), mordaz (acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, blistering, cutting, mordacious, mordant, nipping, peppery, poignant, pointed, pungent, scathing, scorching, searing, sharp), de corte. (various references)

Swedish		inskärande, vass (acid, acidic, cutting, edgy, keen, mordant, Reed, reedy, sharp), skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, keen, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), skärande (cutting, jarring, strident), bitande (acrid, biting, caustic, cutting, keen, nippy, pungent, scathing, sharp). (various references)

Turkish		zekice (cutely, elegant, shrewd, subtle, witty), keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), kesici (cutter, cutting, nipper, nipping, sharp), dokunaklı (acidulous, affective, barbed, biting, eloquent, expressive, mordant, moving, pathetic, poignant, pointed, pungent, scathing, sour, speaking, touching, trenchant), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry). (various references)

Ukranian		ріжучий (cutting, edgy), гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful). (various references)

Vietnamese		sắc bén; nhọn sắc sảo, sâu sắc thấm thía, chua cay (acrimonious, caustically, mordant, nipping, peppery, vitriolic). (various references)

Welsh		cyr.haeddgar (telling), bachog (aquiline, hooked). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incisive": incisively, incisiveness, incisivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incisive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incisice, incisve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incisive" (pronounced i'nsī"siv)
5	-s ī" s i v	decisive, indecisive.
4	-ī" s i v	divisive.
3	-s i v	abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, inclusive, inconclusive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-n-s-v"
	-2 letters: civies, incise.
	-3 letters: cines, civie, ivies, nisei, since, veins, vices, vines, vinic.
	-4 letters: cine, ices, nevi, nice, nisi, sice, sine, vein, vice, vies, vine, vise.
	-5 letters: cis, ens, ice, ins, sec, sei, sen, sic, sin, vie, vis.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-n-s-v"
	+2 letters: incisively, indecisive, vicinities.
	+3 letters: distinctive, indicatives, inscriptive, instinctive, inviolacies, vincristine, vivisecting, vivisection.
	+4 letters: civilianizes, disincentive, inactivities, incentivizes, incisiveness, incivilities, indecisively, negativistic, vincristines, vivisections.
	+5 letters: biconcavities, biconvexities, disincentives, distinctively, indistinctive, infectivities, inscriptively, instinctively, misconceiving, misperceiving, significative, verifications, versification, vivisectional, volcanicities, vulcanicities.
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