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concise - expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation" |
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prolix tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"
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taciturn habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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long-windedness,
prolixity,
prolixness,
wordiness,
windiness boring verbosity
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epigrammatic,
aphoristic,
apothegmatic terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"
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brief concise and succinct; "covered the matter in a brief statement"
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compendious,
succinct,
summary,
compact briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
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laconic,
terse,
curt,
crisp brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"
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cryptic having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
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elliptical,
elliptic characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor
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pithy,
sententious concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
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telegraphic having the style of a telegram with many short words left out; "telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"
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