incisivo

adj.

1 incisive, sharp, acute, cutting.

Las chicas se abalanzaron al hoyo The girls jumped blindly into the hole.

2 incisive, acute, clever, cutting.

Las chicas se abalanzaron al hoyo The girls jumped blindly into the hole.

3 insightful, keen.

m.

incisor, front tooth, incisive tooth, dens acutus.

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incisivo

► adjetivo

1 (instrumento) cutting, sharp

2 figurado (persona, humor) incisive, mordant

► nombre masculino

1 (diente) incisor

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1. ADJ

1) (=cortante) sharp, cutting

2) (=mordaz) incisive

2.

SM incisor

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I

-va adjetivo

a) <instrumento> cutting

b) <crítica/discurso> incisive

II

masculino incisor

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I

-va adjetivo

a) <instrumento> cutting

b) <crítica/discurso> incisive

II

masculino incisor

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incisivo¹

¹ = trenchant, stinging, razor-sharp, waspish.

Ex: However, both BTI and LCSH occasionally use headings of this kind, though one could argue strongly that these are out of place in direct entry methods, and they come in for trenchant criticism from Metcalfe.

Ex: In a stinging rebuke to the American Library Association, Nat Hentoff has criticized the ALA for failing to take action to defend volunteer librarians in Cuba who are being subjected to a brutal crackdown.

Ex: I've always wondered how samurai sword makers made their swords razor-sharp.

Ex: Harwood is excellent -- saucy and coquettish and really waspish in her subsequent vitriolic exchanges with the irate Marcello.

incisivo²

² = incisor, front tooth.

Ex: His teeth grew into razor fangs with two large incisors sticking out above the rest like a wolf.

Ex: Your canine teeth are the pointy ones next to your front teeth.

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incisivo¹ -va

adjective

1 ‹instrumento› cutting

2 ‹crítica/discurso› incisive

incisivo²

masculine

incisor

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incisivo,-a
I adjetivo
1 (comentario, persona) incisive, cutting
2 (instrumento, arma) sharp
II m Anat incisor
'incisivo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
incisiva
- pala
English:
front tooth
- incisive
- incisor

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incisivo, -a

♦ adj

1. [instrumento] sharp, cutting

2. [diente]

diente incisivo incisor

3. [mordaz] incisive

♦ nm

[diente] incisor

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incisivo

adj cutting; fig

incisive;

diente incisivo incisor

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incisivo, -va adj

: incisive

incisivo nm

: incisor