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epigrammaticadjective marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaningOscar Wilde's epigrammatic observation, "In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience" aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical(or elliptic), laconic, 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 in 1694 |