Meaning of PITHY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pithee
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- [adv] in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself pithily"
- [adj] concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
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| | Synonyms: | | concise, sententious, sententiously |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.]
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} (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong
gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
({Diastrophus nebulosus}).
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