Pithy

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  • adjective. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief.
  • adjective. Consisting of or resembling pith.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the nature of or full of pith; containing or abounding with pith: as, a pithy stem; a pithy substance.
  • Full of pith or force; forcible; containing much in a concentrated or dense form; of style, sententious: as, a pithy saying or expression.
  • Given to the use of pithy or forcible expressions.
  • Synonyms and Terse, laconic, concise, pointed, sententious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith
  • adjective. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
  • adjective. a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Concise and meaningful.
  • adjective. Of, like, or abounding in pith.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. concise and full of meaning
  • Word Usage
    "After all, men prefer to "blink," a term I picked up from Dell Global Marketing VP Andy Lark, who himself loves to blog in short, pithy sentences."
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    concise  
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    pithier  pithiest