Incisive vs Summary - What's the difference?
incisive | summary | Synonyms |
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.
Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form
Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.
(legal) Performed by cutting the procedures of a standard and fair trial.
An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
Incisive is a synonym of summary.
As adjectives the difference between incisive and summary
is that incisive is quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright while summary is concise, brief or presented in a condensed form.As a noun summary is
an abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.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 ----summary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A summary review is in the appendix.
- They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.
- Summary justice is bad justice.