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Trenchant

//ˈtɹɛnʃənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. archaic

    "The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack."

  2. 2
    Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.; Adapted for tearing into flesh. archaic

    "The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids."

  3. 3
    Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe. figuratively

    "trenchant wit"

Adjective
  1. 1
    clearly or sharply defined to the mind wordnet
  2. 2
    characterized by or full of force and vigor wordnet
  3. 3
    having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).

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