According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
crisp, curt, laconic, terse
(adjective) 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”
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
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.