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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
laconic
adj 1: brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp
retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the
laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to
understand" [syn: crisp, curt, laconic, terse]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Laconic \La*con"ic\, Laconical \La*con"ic*al\, a. [L. Laconicus
Laconian, Gr. ??, fr. ?? a Laconian, Laced[ae]monian, or
Spartan: cf. F. laconique.]
1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the
Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque;
epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.
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I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes
I return only yes, or no, to questionary or
petitionary epistles of half a yard long. --Pope.
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His sense was strong and his style laconic.
--Welwood.
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2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence,
stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.
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His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod;
all that laconical discipline pleased him well.
--Bp. Hall.
Syn: Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed;
pithy.
Usage: Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant
or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse.
Laconic means concise with the additional quality of
pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Laconic \La*con"ic\, n.
Laconism. [Obs.] --Addison.
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Thesaurus Results for Laconic:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 |
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