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Vigorous vs Incisive - What's the difference?

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Vigorous is a related term of incisive.


As adjectives the difference between vigorous and incisive

is that vigorous is physically strong and active while incisive is quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.

vigorous

English

Alternative forms

* vigourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Physically strong and active.
  • Rapid of growth
  • incisive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 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 ----