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monosyllabicadjective marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaningthe sullen teenager would give only a monosyllabic response to even the friendliest question aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical(or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, 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 1635 |