incisive vs pointed

incisive

adj
  • Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument. 

  • Accurate and sharply focused. 

  • Intelligently analytical and concise. 

  • Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. 

  • Of or relating to the incisors. 

pointed

adj
  • Sharp, barbed; not dull. 

  • Directed negatively at a person or topic. 

  • Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant. 

  • That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations. 

  • In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities. 

How often have the words incisive and pointed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )