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81reticent — I adjective cautious, concise, confidential, constrained, detached, distant, evasive, guarded, laconic, mute, noncommittal, recondite, remote, reserved, restrained, retiring, secretive, sparing of words, standoffish, succinct, taciturn,… …
82sententious — I adjective abridged, aphoristic, apothegmatic, blunt, commatic, compact, compressed, concise, condensed, direct, economical of words, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, expressive, full of meaning, gnomic, laconic, meaningful, meaty, packed with… …
83succinct — I adjective abbreviated, brews, brief, compact, compendious, concise, condensed, curt, epigrammatic, expressed in few words, irreducible, laconic, pauciloquent, pithy, sententious, short, summary, synoptic, terse, to the point, trenchant II index …
84taciturn — I adjective brusque, close, closemouthed, curt, dumb, guarded, habitually silent, inarticulate, laconic, mum, mute, pauciloquent, quiet, reserved, restrained, reticent, secretive, silent, sparing of words, speechless, taciturnus, uncommunicative …
85short — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. brief, concise, curt; deficient, failing; compact, stubby. See insufficiency, shortness, littleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not long in space] Syn. low, skimpy, slight, not tall, not long,… …
86succinct — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. terse, concise, brief, crisp, laconic, meaty, pithy, sententious. See shortness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. concise, brief, crisp, pithy; see concise , short 2 , terse . See Synonym Study at… …
87Conciseness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Conciseness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 conciseness conciseness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 brevity brevity => the soul of wit, the soul of wit laconism Sgm: N 1 Tacitus Tacitus Sgm: N 1 ellipsis ellipsis …
88laconism — /ˈlækənɪzəm/ (say lakuhnizuhm) noun 1. laconic brevity. 2. a laconic utterance or sentence. Also, laconicism /ləˈkɒnəsɪzəm/ (say luh konuhsizuhm). {Greek lakōnismos imitation of Laconians (Spartans), who were noted for brief, pithy speech} …
89concise — [kən sīs′] adj. [L concisus, cut off, brief, pp. of concidere, to cut off < com , intens. + caedere, to cut: see CIDE] brief and to the point; short and clear concisely adv. conciseness n. SYN. CONCISE implies the stating of much in few words …
90laconically — adverb in a dry laconic manner I know that, he said dryly • Syn: ↑dryly, ↑drily • Derived from adjective: ↑dry (for: ↑drily), ↑dry ( …
