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PITHILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pithily mean?
• PITHILY (adverb)
The adverb PITHILY has 1 sense:
1. in a pithy sententious manner
Familiarity information: PITHILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a pithy sententious manner
Synonyms:
pithily; sententiously
Context example:
she expressed herself pithily
Pertainym:
pithy (concise and full of meaning)
Context examples
For I am a plodding kind of fellow, Copperfield, and had learnt the way of doing such things pithily.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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