incisive

Significado (Inglés)

  1. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
  2. Intelligently analytical and concise. (of a person or mental process)
  3. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. (of an action)
  4. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; trenchant.
  5. (relational) Of or relating to the incisors.

Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

In summary

Late Middle English (in the sense “cutting, penetrating”), borrowed from Medieval Latin incīsīvus, from incīdō (“to cut in, cut through”) + -īvus (“-ive”, adjectival suffix). Compare Middle French incisif.

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