crisp, curt, laconic, terse
(adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short; āa crisp retortā; āa response so curt as to be almost rudeā; āthe laconic reply; āyesāā; āshort and terse and easy to understandā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
laconic (comparative more laconic, superlative most laconic)
Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
• concise, pithy, terse
• bombastic, long-winded, verbose, loquacious, prolix
• calcino, calocin, cloacin, colanic, conical
Source: Wiktionary
La*con"ic, La*con"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. laconique.]
1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. 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. His sense was strong and his style laconic. Welwood.
2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. 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.
– 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.
La*con"ic, n.
Definition: Laconism. [Obs.] Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; ātheoretical scienceā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
