Pithy

a.	1.	Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
	2.	Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. - Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. - Addison. Pithy gall (Zool.) a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

Adj.	1.	pithy - concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen Synonyms: sententious
Adv.	1.	pithy - in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself pithily" Synonyms: sententiously

Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, baccate, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, doughy, edematous, effective, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, figurative, flabby, fleshy, forceful, formulaic, formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, gnomic, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, laconic, lean, macerated, masticated, meaning, meaningful, meaty, medullary, metaphorical, mushy, pasty, platitudinous, pointed, pregnant, proverbial, pruned, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, pungent, readable, referential, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, significant, significative, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, substantial, succinct, succulent, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, transferred, truncated

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