Word Meanings - LACONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Laconism. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LACONIC)

• Epigrammatic
• Pointed
• terse
• graphic
• concise
• laconic
• Pithy
• Terse
• pregnant
• expressive
• nervous

Related words: (words related to LACONIC)

• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  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
• TERSE
  1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants."
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• LACONICISM
  See POPE
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• CONCISE
  Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief
• GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
  The quality or state of being graphic.
• GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of
• NERVOUSLY
  In a nervous manner.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• PREGNANTLY
  In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
• HETEROGRAPHIC
  Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
• HYDROGRAPHIC; HYDROGRAPHICAL
  Of or relating to hydrography.
• PHONOGRAPHICALLY
  In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• CALCOGRAPHIC; CALCOGRAPHICAL
  Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.