About The Word Pithy
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Pithy
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What's The Definition Of Pithy?
[adv] in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself pithily"
[adj] concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen Synonyms | Synonyms for Pithy: concise | sententious | sententiously Related Terms | Find terms related to Pithy: abbreviated | abridged | allegorical | aphoristic | aposiopestic | associational | axiomatic | baccate | brief | brusque | clipped | close | compact | compendious | compressed | concise | condensed | connotational | connotative | contracted | crisp | curt | cut | definable | denotational | denotative | docked | doughy | edematous | effective | elliptic | epigrammatic | expressive | extended | extensional | figurative | flabby | fleshy | forceful | formulaic | formulistic | full of meaning | full of point | full of substance | gnomic | indicative | intelligible | intensional | interpretable | laconic | lean | macerated | masticated | meaning | meaningful | meaty | medullary | metaphorical | mushy | pasty | platitudinous | pointed | pregnant | proverbial | pruned | pulpal | pulpar | pulped | pulplike | pulpy | pungent | readable | referential | reserved | sententious | short | short and sweet | shortened | significant | significative | soft | Spartan | spongy | squashy | squelchy | squishy | substantial | succinct | succulent | suggestive | summary | symbolic | synopsized | taciturn | terse | tight | to the point | transferred | truncated See Also | Pithy In Webster's Dictionary \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.]
1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith;
as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.
--Dryden.
In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
--Addison.
{Pithy gall} (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong
gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
({Diastrophus nebulosus}).
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