Related Words:
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- axiomatic,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brief,
- brusque,
- chaste,
- classic,
- clear,
- clear-cut,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- distilled,
- docked,
- dumb,
- easy,
- economical of words,
- elegant,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- finished,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- gnomic,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gruff,
- incisive,
- indisposed to talk,
- laconic,
- lean,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mum,
- mute,
- natural,
- neat,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- petulant,
- pithy,
- plain,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- polished,
- precise,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- pure,
- quiet,
- refined,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- simple,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tart,
- tasteful,
- taut,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- trim,
- truncated,
- unaffected,
- ungracious,
- unlabored,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- trimmed
collapse - made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair" related words >
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- adorned,
- all up with,
- beaded,
- beat,
- beaten,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- bested,
- bobbed,
- bordered,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- compressed,
- condensed,
- confounded,
- cropped,
- curtailed,
- cut short,
- decked,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- defeated,
- digested,
- discomfited,
- docked,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- edged,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- embellished,
- fallen,
- feathered,
- festooned,
- figured,
- fimbriated,
- fixed,
- floored,
- flowered,
- fringed,
- gaff-rigged,
- garnished,
- hors de combat,
- jeweled,
- laciniate,
- laciniated,
- lambasted,
- lateen-rigged,
- lathered,
- licked,
- marged,
- marginate,
- marginated,
- margined,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- on the skids,
- ornamented,
- outdone,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overmastered,
- overmatched,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overthrown,
- overturned,
- overwhelmed,
- panicked,
- plumed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- put to rout,
- reaped,
- rigged,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scattered,
- settled,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- silenced,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- skirted,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- stampeded,
- studded,
- tricked out,
- trounced,
- undone,
- upset,
- whelmed,
- whipped,
- worsted,
- wreathed
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- bobtail,
- bobtailed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- canned,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- concrete,
- congested,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- crowded,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- dense,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- firm,
- gluey,
- gnomic,
- hard,
- heavy,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- massive,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- nonporous,
- packed,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pocket,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- potted,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- serried,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- solid,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thickset,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled
- reserved
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- cool and formal in manner
- marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
- set aside for the use of a particular person or party related words >
- Olympian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aloof,
- antisocial,
- aposiopestic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- brief,
- brusque,
- ceremonious,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-lipped,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- cold,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- conserved,
- constrained,
- contracted,
- controlled,
- conventional,
- cool,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- demure,
- detached,
- diffident,
- dignified,
- discreet,
- distant,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- formal,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gnomic,
- guarded,
- held,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- ice-cold,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incommunicable,
- introverted,
- kept,
- laconic,
- modest,
- modified,
- noncommittal,
- offish,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- poker-faced,
- preserved,
- prim,
- pruned,
- put by,
- quiet,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- restrained,
- retained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- saved,
- sedate,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- spare,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strait-laced,
- subdued,
- succinct,
- summary,
- suppressed,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tights,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unresponsive,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn,
- withheld
- contracted
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- reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes" related words >
- Spartan,
- abated,
- abbreviated,
- ablated,
- abridged,
- affianced,
- agreed,
- aposiopestic,
- arranged,
- assured,
- attenuated,
- bated,
- belittled,
- betrothed,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- bound,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cecal,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- closed,
- committed,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- compromised,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- consumed,
- covenanted,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- decreased,
- deflated,
- diminished,
- dissipated,
- docked,
- dropped,
- elliptic,
- engaged,
- epigrammatic,
- eroded,
- fallen,
- gnomic,
- guaranteed,
- intended,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- miniaturized,
- nipped,
- obligated,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pledged,
- plighted,
- pointed,
- promised,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- reserved,
- retrenched,
- scaled-down,
- sealed,
- sententious,
- settled,
- shorn,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- shut,
- signed,
- smaller,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- squeezed shut,
- stipulated,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- undertaken,
- underwritten,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- warranted,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered-down,
- weakened,
- worn,
- wrinkled
- brusque
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- marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- aposiopestic,
- artless,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- broad,
- candid,
- cavalier,
- churlish,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- discourteous,
- docked,
- downright,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- explicit,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- heart-to-heart,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- indisposed to talk,
- ingenuous,
- laconic,
- mum,
- mute,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- overbearing,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- rough,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- sincere,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- surly,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transparent,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- unconstrained,
- unequivocal,
- ungracious,
- unguarded,
- unloquacious,
- unmannerly,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- cut short
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- interrupt before its natural or planned end; "We had to cut short our vacation"
- cause to end earlier than intended; "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abbreviated,
- abridge,
- abridged,
- abstract,
- abstracted,
- arrest,
- block,
- bob,
- bobbed,
- boil down,
- brake,
- bring to,
- bring up short,
- butchered,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- capsulized,
- castrated,
- check,
- checkmate,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clip,
- clipped,
- compress,
- compressed,
- condense,
- condensed,
- contract,
- crop,
- cropped,
- curtail,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- dam,
- deadlock,
- digested,
- dispose of,
- do away with,
- dock,
- docked,
- draw rein,
- dumbfound,
- elide,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- end,
- epitomize,
- finish,
- finish off,
- foreshorten,
- freeze,
- gag,
- garbled,
- get rid of,
- halt,
- hashed,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- kill,
- lopped,
- make away with,
- mangled,
- mow,
- mowed,
- mown,
- muffle,
- mutilated,
- muzzle,
- nip,
- nipped,
- poll,
- pollard,
- polled,
- prune,
- pruned,
- pull up,
- put paid to,
- put to silence,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- reap,
- reaped,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- shave,
- shaved,
- shear,
- sheared,
- short-cut,
- shorten,
- shortened,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- slaughter,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- soft-pedal,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stalemate,
- stall,
- stay,
- stem,
- stem the tide,
- stifle,
- still,
- stop,
- stop cold,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- strike dumb,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- take off,
- telescope,
- throttle,
- to,
- trim,
- trimmed,
- truncate,
- truncated
- summary
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- a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abbreviation,
- abridged,
- abridgement,
- abridgment,
- abrupt,
- abstract,
- account,
- accounts,
- alert,
- apocope,
- aposiopestic,
- apt,
- body count,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capitulation,
- census,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compendium,
- compressed,
- compression,
- concise,
- condensation,
- condensed,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- contracted,
- copy,
- core,
- count,
- crisp,
- critique,
- curt,
- curtailment,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decisive,
- decurtate,
- digest,
- distillate,
- docked,
- drumhead,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- elliptic,
- encapsulation,
- epigrammatic,
- epitome,
- epitomization,
- essence,
- expeditious,
- foreshortening,
- gist,
- gnomic,
- going over,
- head count,
- immediate,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- inventory,
- iteration,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- main point,
- meat,
- nose count,
- outline,
- peremptory,
- perfunctory,
- pith,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- practicing,
- precis,
- prompt,
- pruned,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ready,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- reduction,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- repertory,
- reprint,
- reserved,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retrenchment,
- review,
- roundup,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shortening,
- speedy,
- statement,
- substance,
- succinct,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- summing-up,
- swift,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- telescoping,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transient,
- truncated,
- truncation
- condensation
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- (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams
- a shortened version of a written work
- atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold
- the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state related words >
- abbreviation,
- abbreviature,
- abrege,
- abridgment,
- abstract,
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- accretion,
- adherence,
- adhesion,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggravation,
- apocope,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- bottleneck,
- breviary,
- brief,
- capsule,
- cervix,
- circumscription,
- cling,
- clinging,
- clotting,
- clumping,
- clustering,
- coagulation,
- coarctation,
- coherence,
- cohesion,
- cohesiveness,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compend,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- concretion,
- condensed version,
- congealment,
- congelation,
- conglobation,
- conglomeration,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- curtailment,
- decrease,
- deepening,
- densification,
- digest,
- diminuendo,
- distillation,
- draft,
- dribble,
- drip,
- dripping,
- drop,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- enhancement,
- epitome,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- foreshortening,
- hardening,
- head,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- information explosion,
- inseparability,
- intensification,
- isthmus,
- junction,
- knitting,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- magnification,
- narrow place,
- narrowing,
- neck,
- outline,
- overview,
- pandect,
- percolation,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- precis,
- puckering,
- pursing,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- redoubling,
- reduction,
- reinforcement,
- retrenchment,
- review,
- rubric,
- seepage,
- seeping,
- set,
- shortened version,
- shortening,
- skeleton,
- sketch,
- solidification,
- speedup,
- spurtle,
- step-up,
- sticking,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- strengthening,
- striction,
- stricture,
- summary,
- summation,
- survey,
- sweating,
- syllabus,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- systole,
- telescoping,
- thumbnail sketch,
- tightening,
- topical outline,
- trickle,
- tricklet,
- truncation,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
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