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Incisive vs Precisive - What's the difference?

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Incisive is a related term of precisive.


As adjectives the difference between incisive and precisive

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

incisive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
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  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive .}}
  • 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 ----

    precisive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cutting off.
  • (logic) Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose.
  • precisive censure
    precisive abstraction

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