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1 Epigrammatic -- rank: 1000

Epigrammatic definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary EPIGRAMMAT'IC EPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, a. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet. 1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; pointed; poignant; as epigrammatic style or wit. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1 ... a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1694 1. of, relating to ... the use of epigrams • epigrammatically adverb Webster's 1913 Dictionary Epigrammatic Ep`i*gram*mat"ic, Epigrammatical Ep`i*gram*mat ... epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy. Soule's Dictionary ...

2 Pointed -- rank: 440

... 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral ... Peaked, sharp, acuminated, picked. 2. Personal, distinct, marked, explicit. 3. Epigrammatic, keen, poignant. Moby Thesaurus Attic, Spartan, V-shaped, Y-shaped ... cutting, decided, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, droll, elliptic, emphasized, emphatic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, facetious, figurative, forceful, forcible, forked, formulaic, formulistic ...

3 Epigrammatical -- rank: 440

Epigrammatical definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Epigrammatic Ep`i*gram*mat"ic, Epigrammatical Ep`i*gram*mat ... epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. See epigrammatic

4 Laconic -- rank: 348

... manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow ... contracted, crisp, curt, cut, docked, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, mum, mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet ...

5 Epigram -- rank: 348

... a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying 3. epigrammatic expression • epigrammatism noun • epigrammatist noun Britannica Concise Short poem treating ... a pointed saying. 3 a pointed mode of expression. Derivatives: epigrammatic adj. epigrammatically adv. epigrammatist n. epigrammatize v.tr. & intr. (also ...

6 Sententious -- rank: 348

... excessive moralizing 2. terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression ; pithy, epigrammatic • sententiously adverb • sententiousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 (of ... declamatory, definable, denotational, denotative, didactic, directive, docked, elevated, elliptic, eloquent, epigrammatic, euphuistic, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, expressive, extended, extensional, facund, figurative ...

7 epigrammatically -- rank: 348

epigrammatically definitions Merriam Webster's adverb see epigrammatic Webster's 1913 Dictionary Epigrammatically Ep`i*gram*mat"ic ... al*ly, adv. In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

8 Aphoristic -- rank: 348

... a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic] Merriam Webster's adjective see aphorism Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, laconic, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial, pruned, pungent ...

9 Pointed style -- rank: 220

... 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral ...

10 pointed arch -- rank: 220

... 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral ...

11 platitudinous -- rank: 220

... common, commonly known, commonplace, corny, crisp, current, cut-and-dried, epigrammatic, fade, familiar, formulaic, formulistic, fusty, gnomic, hackney, hackneyed, household, moth ...

12 Pungent -- rank: 220

... crab, crabbed, cramping, crisp, cruel, cutting, deafening, distressing, droll, dry, epigrammatic, escharotic, exciting, excruciating, facetious, flavorful, formulaic, formulistic, funny, gnawing, gnomic ...

13 Pruned -- rank: 220

... cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, reaped ...

14 Proverbial -- rank: 220

... apophthegmatic, apothegmatic, archetypal, axiomatic, common, commonly known, commonplace, crisp, current, epigrammatic, exemplary, familiar, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, hackneyed, homiletic, household, moralistic, notorious ...

15 Proverb -- rank: 220

... or repetition, and cultivated this to its most condensed and epigrammatic construction. Thus the mashal took to itself a literary self ...