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- aphoristic
collapse - terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- axiomatic,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated
- gnomic
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- relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- axiomatic,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- laconic,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- axiomatic,
- blunt,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decurtate,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- gnomic,
- instantaneous,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transient,
- truncated
- compendious
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- 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" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- across-the-board,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-inclusive,
- aposiopestic,
- blanket,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decurtate,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- encyclopedic,
- epigrammatic,
- global,
- gnomic,
- instantaneous,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- omnibus,
- over-all,
- panoramic,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sweeping,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- total,
- transient,
- truncated,
- universal,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without omission
- abridged
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- (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- clipped
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- (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
- cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
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- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
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- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- abbreviated
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- (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
- cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" related words >
- Spartan,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- indisposed to talk,
- mum,
- mute,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- truncated,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- docked
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- that in a dock; "a docked ship" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- butchered,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- castrated,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- garbled,
- gnomic,
- hashed,
- laconic,
- lopped,
- mangled,
- mowed,
- mown,
- mutilated,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- taciturn
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- habitually reserved and uncommunicative related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- brief,
- brooding,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-lipped,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- dour,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- indisposed to talk,
- laconic,
- mum,
- mute,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- reticent,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- truncated,
- uncommunicative,
- unexpressive,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- concise
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- expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- cogent,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decurtate,
- direct,
- docked,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- indisposed to talk,
- instantaneous,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- mum,
- mute,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transient,
- trenchant,
- truncated,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bell-like,
- bell-shaped,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- campaniform,
- campanular,
- campanulate,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- ellipsoid,
- elliptic,
- elongated,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- oblong,
- oblongated,
- oblongitudinal,
- parabolic,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- rectangular,
- reserved,
- saucer-shaped,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- elliptic
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- 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
- of a leaf shape; in the form of an ellipse related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bell-like,
- bell-shaped,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- campaniform,
- campanular,
- campanulate,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- ellipsoid,
- elliptical,
- elongated,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- oblong,
- oblongated,
- oblongitudinal,
- parabolic,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- rectangular,
- reserved,
- saucer-shaped,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- a propos,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- ad rem,
- adapted,
- admissible,
- aposiopestic,
- appertaining,
- applicable,
- applying,
- apposite,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- apt,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- belonging,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- docked,
- dovetailing,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitting,
- geared,
- germane,
- gnomic,
- happy,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- in point,
- involving,
- just right,
- laconic,
- likely,
- material,
- matter-of-factly,
- meshing,
- naturally,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- pat,
- pertaining,
- pertinent,
- pithy,
- plainly,
- point-blank,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- qualified,
- relevant,
- reserved,
- right,
- seasonable,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simply,
- sortable,
- succinct,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tailored,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the purpose,
- truncated,
- unaffectedly
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aposiopestic,
- bandy,
- bandy-legged,
- blemished,
- bloated,
- bowlegged,
- brief,
- brusque,
- butchered,
- castrated,
- clipped,
- close,
- club-footed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- cut short,
- defaced,
- deformed,
- disfigured,
- docked,
- dwarfed,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- flatfooted,
- garbled,
- gnomic,
- grotesque,
- hashed,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- knock-kneed,
- laconic,
- lopped,
- malformed,
- mangled,
- marred,
- misbegotten,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- monstrous,
- mutilated,
- out of shape,
- pigeon-toed,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- pug-nosed,
- rachitic,
- reserved,
- rickety,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simous,
- snub-nosed,
- stumpy,
- succinct,
- summary,
- swaybacked,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- talipedic,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- aposiopestic,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cavalier,
- churlish,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- crusty,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decurtate,
- docked,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- imperious,
- indisposed to talk,
- instantaneous,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- mum,
- mute,
- peremptory,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- rough,
- rude,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- snappish,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- succinct,
- summary,
- surly,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transient,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- unceremonious,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- pithy
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- concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- baccate,
- brief,
- brusque,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- docked,
- doughy,
- edematous,
- effective,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- figurative,
- flabby,
- fleshy,
- forceful,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- gnomic,
- indicative,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- laconic,
- lean,
- macerated,
- masticated,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- medullary,
- metaphorical,
- mushy,
- pasty,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pulpal,
- pulpar,
- pulped,
- pulplike,
- pulpy,
- pungent,
- readable,
- referential,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- significant,
- significative,
- soft,
- spongy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- succulent,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transferred,
- truncated
- compressed
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- reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
- pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed"
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- 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,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Spartan
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- a resident of Sparta
- resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
- of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Laconian,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartanic,
- Stoic,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- accepting,
- aposiopestic,
- armed with patience,
- ascetic,
- astringent,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- bald,
- bare,
- brief,
- brusque,
- candid,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- clam,
- clipped,
- close,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- continent,
- contracted,
- controlled,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- demanding,
- direct,
- disciplined,
- docked,
- dour,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elliptic,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- epigrammatic,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exiguous,
- forbearing,
- frank,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- gnomic,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- impoverished,
- indulgent,
- inornate,
- jejune,
- laconic,
- lean,
- lenient,
- limited,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- man of iron,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- open,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- poor,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pruned,
- puny,
- pure,
- reserved,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-controlled,
- self-denying,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sexually abstinent,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stoic,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn off,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- teetotal,
- terse,
- thin,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- tough,
- truncated,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- understanding,
- unelaborate,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unsparing,
- unvarnished,
- vegetarian,
- watered,
- watery
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