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What does incisive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word incisive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
  2. Intelligently analytical and concise.
  3. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
  4. (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.
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Following an incisive pass, the left-winger raced clear, committed the keeper, before drilling a left-footer into the corner from a tight angle.
The film is an incisive satire on religion and British society, with the Church of England hierarchy particularly coming in for a skewering.
Neither specimen shows evidence of an incisive foramen or other vacuity in the parts of the palatal process that are preserved.
Several chapters are rich in fresh insights and in incisive restatements of accepted views.
Margie and I stared, unsure whether she had just said something breathtakingly incisive or mind-numbingly literal-minded.
He should have done better than shoot tamely at the keeper following an incisive one-touch move 20 minutes into the half.

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