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Incisive vs Indecisive - What's the difference?

incisive | indecisive |

As adjectives the difference between incisive and indecisive

is that incisive is quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright while indecisive is .

incisive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
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  • Intelligently analytical and concise.
  • Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
  • * G. Eliot
  • An incisive , high voice.
  • * Mrs. Browning
  • And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush.
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.
  • Derived terms

    * incisively * incisiveness * incisivity ----

    indecisive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) Not decisive; not marked by promptness or decision.
  • They were all being very indecisive about what to wear to the party.
  • inconclusive or uncertain
  • The outcome of the race was so indecisive .

    Antonyms

    * decisive

    Derived terms

    * indecisiveness * indecisively