Brisk vs Trenchant - What's the difference?
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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
Stimulating or invigorating.
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
* 1919 ,
(obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
*1663 ,
*:The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
(figuratively) Keen]]; [[bite, biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
*1899 ,
*:His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
Brisk is a related term of trenchant.
As adjectives the difference between brisk and trenchant
is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while trenchant is (obsolete) fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.As a verb brisk
is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.brisk
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.