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Another word for pithy

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pithy

modif.

succinct, terse, cogent, meaty, pointed, forcible, trenchant, pregnant, weighty, substantial, sententious, epigrammatic, aphoristic, gnomic, pungent, crisp, in a nutshell; see also concise, short 2, terse, trenchant 2. See syn. study at concise.

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Precisely meaningful and tersely cogent:

aphoristic, compact¹, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, marrowy. (Informal) brass-tacks. Idioms: down to brass tacks, to the point. See meaning, style

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The short, pithy sayings have become popular mottoes and household words.
He didn't even bother to search his mental library under pithy, tasteless and nasty retorts.
His writings in tone and character are always alike " rich in thought and destitute of form, passionate and hair-splitting, eloquent and pithy in expression, energetic and condensed to the point of obscurity."
They were written in pithy and popular language, full of proverbs and colloquialisms. Plato is said to have introduced them into Athens and to have made use of them in his dialogues; according to Suidas, they were Plato's constant companions, and he even slept with them under his pillow.
It has about it the ring of reality; the language is sometimes pithy and vigorous; and now and then we meet with apt metaphors, such as those borrowed from boxing (i.

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