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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for aphoristic:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
aphoristic
    adj 1: containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom" [syn:
           axiomatic, aphoristic]
    2: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic
       instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic,
       epigrammatic]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aphoristic \Aph`o*ris"tic\, Aphoristical \Aph`o*ris"tic*al\, a.
   [Gr. ?.]
   In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form
   of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.
   [1913 Webster]

         The method of the book is aphoristic.    --De Quincey.
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