Laconic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise. See Synonyms at silent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.
  • adj. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.
  • n. Laconism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to Laconia or its inhabitants; Lacedæmonian or Spartan.
  • Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the ancient Laconians; sententious; pithy; short; brief: as, a laconic phrase.
  • Characteristic of the Laconians; inexorable; stern; severe.
  • Synonyms Condensed, Succinct, etc. See concise.
  • n. Conciseness of language; laconicism.
  • n. A concise, pithy expression; something expressed in a concise, pithy manner; a laconism: chiefly used in the plural: as, to talk in laconics.
  • n. In ancient prosody, an anapestic tetrameter catalectic with a spondee instead of the penultimate anapest . So called as a variety of the tetrameter used in the Laconian or Spartan embateria.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short
  • Equivalent
    concise   
    Antonym
    verbose    long-winded    bombastic    loquacious   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    concise    brusque    laconian    cruel    unflinching    laconism    Brie    pithy    terse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ionic    Masonic    Miltonic    Napoleonic    Panasonic    Platonic    allophonic    avionic    bubonic    catatonic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    terse    pithy    cryptic    businesslike    sardonic    succinct    incisive    sarcastic    matter-of-fact    peremptory