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epigrammatic collapse

short-tempered collapse

untalkative collapse

tight lipped collapse

aphoristic collapse: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

gnomic collapse: relating to or containing gnomes; "gnomic verse"

closemouthed collapse

tongue tied collapse

proverbial collapse: widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"; of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"

speechless collapse: unable to speak temporarily; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

succinct collapse

mum collapse: secrecy; "mum's the word"; failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent"

compendious collapse: 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"

abridged collapse: (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

pruned collapse

clipped collapse: (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"

shortened collapse

abbreviated collapse: (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"

fleeting collapse: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

laconic collapse

unlabored collapse

platitudinous collapse

docked collapse: that in a dock; "a docked ship"

wordless collapse

taciturn collapse: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

axiomatic collapse: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"; of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens; containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom"

concise collapse: expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"

limpid collapse: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"

elliptic collapse: 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

elliptical collapse

tasteful collapse: having or showing or conforming to good taste

to the point collapse

pellucid collapse

truncated collapse

curt collapse

Attic collapse: (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof; informal terms for a human head; the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens; of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times; "Attic Greek"

silent collapse: having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle"; not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded"; marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still"

pithy collapse: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

gracile collapse: slender and graceful

perspicuous collapse

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