precisive

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹiˈsaɪ.sɪv/

Adjective

precisive (comparative more precisive, superlative most precisive)

1. Cutting off.
2. (logic) Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relevant.

   precisive censure

   precisive abstraction

Related terms

• precise, precision
• decisive, incisive

References

• “precisive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.