PITHY (pithier, pithiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: pithier    , pithiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pithy mean? 

• PITHY (adjective)
  The adjective PITHY has 1 sense:

1. concise and full of meaning

  Familiarity information: PITHY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITHY (adjective)

Comparative: pithier   
Superlative: pithiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concise and full of meaning

Synonyms:

pithy; sententious

Context example:

the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams

Similar:

concise (expressing much in few words)

Derivation:

pith (the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience)

pithiness (terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words)

 Context examples 

They could always talk; and their discourse, witty, pithy, original, had such charms for me, that I preferred listening to, and sharing in it, to doing anything else.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem that usually lives only one or two years.

(Cane, Food and Drug Administration)