OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 25256

incisive

/ɪnˈsaɪ.sɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
incisivo
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.
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 sy…