Incisive vs Probing - What's the difference?
incisive | probing |
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.
Of something that investigates or explores deeply.
As adjectives the difference between incisive and probing
is that incisive is quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright while probing is of something that investigates or explores deeply.As a noun probing is
the action of investigating]] or [[explore|exploring.As a verb probing is
.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 ----probing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was unsettled by her probing questions.