Aphoristic synonyms

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axiomatic
(Informal) Obvious.
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epigrammatic
Having the nature of an epigram; terse, witty, etc.
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compact
The definition of compact is a person or thing that takes up a small amount of space.
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epigrammatical
Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
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marrowy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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down to brass tacks
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meaning (related)
Disposed or intended in a specified manner. Often used in combination:
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style (related)
The slender part of a flower pistil, connecting the ovary and the stigma. The pollen tube grows through the style delivering the pollen nuclei to the ovary.
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apothegmatic
Relating to, or in the manner of, an apothegm; sententious; pithy.
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formulistic
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brass-tacks
Precisely meaningful and tersely cogent
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Aphoristic Sentence Examples

  • His works are very clear in style, though aphoristic rather than systematic in the treatment of subjects.

  • Some of the material may have existed in aphoristic form before, but the composition of the present book may be put approximately in the century 300-200 B.C. Even its simplest maxims have a certain academic form.

  • There is the deep pathos of the scene in which is described Rama's farewell to his mother: the rugged language depicting the horrors of the battlefield - a torrent of harsh sounds clashing against each other and reverberating from phrase to phrase; and, as occasion requires, a sententious, aphoristic method of narrative, teeming with similes drawn from nature herself, and not from the traditions of the schools.

  • It contains in an aphoristic form the main doctrines of the longer work.

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