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発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
• 韻: -aɪsɪv

形容詞

incisive (comparative more incisive, superlative most incisive)

1. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
   1. Accurate and sharply focused. (of an account)
2. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action)

   Synonyms: decisive, forthright

   An incisive producer, who expressed vehement disapproval with my pitch upon my first sentence.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

3. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
   • 1862–1863, Mary Ann Evans, Romola:

     An incisive, high voice.

   • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Second Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     And her incisive smile accrediting / That treason of false witness in my blush.

   Synonyms: sharp, acute, sarcastic, biting

4. (anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the incisors.

   the incisive bones, the premaxillaries

派生語

参照

• “incisive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “incisive”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

形容詞

incīsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of incīsīvus