What is another word for Epigrammatical?

Pronunciation: [ˌɛpɪɡɹɐmˈatɪkə͡l] (IPA)

Epigrammatical is a term that is typically used to describe a statement or expression that is both concise and clever. There are several synonyms that can be used to convey a similar idea, including pithy, succinct, terse, and laconic. A statement that is pithy, for example, is one that is brief and to the point. A succinct statement is one that is expressed in a way that is brief and to the point, without any unnecessary words or phrases. A terse statement is one that is expressed in a way that is brief and to the point, often with a sense of being curt or abrupt. A laconic statement is one that is expressed using very few words, often conveying a lot of meaning in just a few phrases.

What are the hypernyms for Epigrammatical?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Epigrammatical

It is easy now, as it was easy for Rousseau in the last century, to ask in an Epigrammatical manner by how much men are better or happier for having found out this or that novelty in transcendental mathematics, biology, or astronomy; and this is very well as against the discoverer of small marvels who shall give himself out for the benefactor of the human race.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
As for the substance of his thinking, as we have already seen in the Discourses, and shall soon have an opportunity of seeing still more clearly, it was often as thin and hollow as if he had belonged to the company of the Epigrammatical, who, after all, have far less of a monopoly of shallow thinking than is often supposed.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
Many chapters of high-class comedy and Epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory.
"Halleck's New English Literature"
Reuben P. Halleck

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