incisive
/ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/ adjective C2- Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
- Accurate and sharply focused. (of an account)
- Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action) · An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.
- Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
- Of or relating to the incisors. · the incisive bones, the premaxillaries
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I have, as my friend Watson may have remarked, an abnormally acute set of senses, and a faint but incisive scent was apparent.
That cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world.
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