Pithy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief: a pithy comment.
  • adj. Consisting of or resembling pith.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Concise and meaningful.
  • adj. Of, like, or abounding in pith.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith
  • adj. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the nature of or full of pith; containing or abounding with pith: as, a pithy stem; a pithy substance.
  • Full of pith or force; forcible; containing much in a concentrated or dense form; of style, sententious: as, a pithy saying or expression.
  • Given to the use of pithy or forcible expressions.
  • Synonyms and Terse, laconic, concise, pointed, sententious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. concise and full of meaning
  • Equivalent
    concise   
    Variant
    pithier    pithiest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    forceful    cogent    concise    laconic    terse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sententious    concise    terse    epigrammatic    laconic    incisive    idiomatic    oracular    cryptic    satirical