trenchant
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛnʃənt/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).
- Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
“The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.”
- Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
“The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.”
- Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.
“trenchant wit”
“His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.”