the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams.
Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Dealing in epigrams; speaking or writing in epigram: as, an epigrammatic poet.
Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; having the quality of an epigram; antithetical; pointed: as, epigrammatic style or wit.
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adj. terse and witty and like a maxim
Word Usage
"Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences."