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.