Incisive vs Precisive - What's the difference?
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Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 Intelligently analytical and concise.
Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
* G. Eliot
* Mrs. Browning
(anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.
Cutting off.
(logic) Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose.
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)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 .}}
- An incisive , high voice.
- And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush.
Derived terms
* incisively * incisiveness * incisivity ----precisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- precisive censure
- precisive abstraction