| Main Entry: | incisiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edge |
Synonyms: |
bite, burn, guts*, keenness, kick, piquancy, punch*, sharpness, spice, sting, zap, zip |
| Main Entry: | accuracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precision or correctness |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, preciseness, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
Antonyms: |
erroneousness, falsehood, inaccuracy, mistake |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, brains, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, incisiveness, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, rationality, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inanity, misjudgment, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | acridity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sarcasm |
Synonyms: |
acerbity, acidity, acridness, acrimony, causticity, incisiveness, mordacity, mordancy, sharpness, trenchancy |
| Main Entry: | causticity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sarcasm |
Synonyms: |
acridity, acridness, causticness, corrosiveness, incisiveness, mordacity, mordancy, trenchancy |
| Main Entry: | preciseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, correctness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, precision, rightness, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accuracy |
Synonyms: |
accurateness, carefulness, certainty, closeness, correctness, definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, efficiency, exactitude, exactness, faultlessness, incisiveness, mastery, meticulousness, preciseness, precision, sharpness, skill, skillfulness, strictness, sureness, truthfulness, veracity, verity |
| Main Entry: | sharpness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edge |
Synonyms: |
bite*, honing, incisiveness, keenness, polish, sharpening, sting* |
| Main Entry: | sharpness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
two, acanaceous, acicular, aciform, acuate, aculeated, acuminate, acuminated, acute, ansal, arrow, barbed, belonoid, briery, bristling, conical, corniculate, cornute, cornuted, craggy, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cutting, denticulated, dentiform, digitated, ensiform, forticate, fusiform, gladiate, glockamoid, hastate, inermous, keen, keen as a razor, knife, mucronate, mucronated, muricate, muricated, needle, odontoid, oxyacanthous, peaked, pectinated, pointed, prickly, pyramidal, salient, set, sharp, sharp, sharp as a needle, sharp as a razor, snaggy, spiculed, spiked, spiky, spindle, spiny, spurred, starlike, stellated, stelliform, studded, tapering, thistly, thorny, toothed, xyresic
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| Concept: | Sharpness. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
sharpness; acuity, acumination; spinosity., point, spike, spine, spiculum, needle, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca., nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet., crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire, pyramid, steeple., beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle., wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears; sword (arms); bodkin (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker [U.S.]; drawing knife, drawing shave; Swiss Army knife., sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel, emery.
-verbs
be sharp; taper to a point; bristle with., render sharp; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind., cut (sunder).
-adjectives
sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred., acinaform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, laciform; awl-shaped, lance-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid., cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle; sharpened; set
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Antonyms: |
bluntness |
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