crisp, curt, laconic, terse
(adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short; âa crisp retortâ; âa response so curt as to be almost rudeâ; âthe laconic reply; âyesââ; âshort and terse and easy to understandâ
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
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; âfissile crystalsâ; âfissile woodâ
The worldâs most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet â a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
