Laconic

Adjective

 * 1) Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.

Synonyms

 * concise, pithy, terse

Antonyms

 * bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious

Related terms

 * laconical
 * laconically
 * spartan

Adverbs for Laconic
meagerly; unsatisfactorily; emphatically; disappointingly;  vexatiously;   habitually; tersely; drily; drolly; crisply; curtly; comprehensively ; summarily; trenchantly; curiously; oddly; officially; arrogantly; cynically; laudably; neatly; compactly; sentent-iously; professionally; provokingly; remarkably; wonderfully; notably; famously; uncommonly; highly; amazingly; incredibly; effectively.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From Laconicus: <  Λακωνικός:. Laconia was the region inhabited and ruled by the Spartans, who were known for their brevity in speech.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 簡潔, 简洁
 * Croatian: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לקוני


 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 簡潔
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, (Brazil)
 * Romanian: laconic
 * Russian: лаконичный, немногословный
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

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