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laconicadjective marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaningthe sportscaster's color commentary tends to be laconic but very much to the point aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical(or elliptic), epigrammatic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail abrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), short, snippety, snippyabbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortenedmeaty, substantialmeaningful, significantwell-turned circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousenlarged, expanded, supplementedembellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination)laconic by nature, he sat back and enjoyed hearing stories from the more loquacious dinner guests closemouthed, dumb, reserved, reticent, silent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative aloof, indrawn, inhibited, introverted, restrainedsedate, self-contained, sober, staidbackward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, modest, retiring, self-effacing, sheepish blabby, chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, motormouthed, mouthy, talkative, talky, unreserved free-spoken, outspoken, vocalgossipy, talebearingdiffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordyextroverted(also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious mean very brief in statement or expression.concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative.a concise description terse implies pointed conciseness.a terse reply succinct implies the greatest possible compression.a succinct letter of resignation laconic implies brevity to the point of seeming rude, indifferent, or mysterious.an aloof and laconic stranger summary suggests the statement of main points with no elaboration or explanation.a summary listing of the year's main events pithy adds to succinct or terse the implication of richness of meaning or substance.a comedy sharpened by pithy one-liners compendious applies to what is at once full in scope and brief and concise in treatment.a compendious dictionary in 1589 |