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pithy 音標拼音: [p'ɪθi] a. 有髓的,有力的,含蓄的 有髓的,有力的,含蓄的 pithy adj 1: concise and full of meaning; " welcomed her pithy comments"; " the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [ synonym: { pithy}, { sententious}] Pithy \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. [ 1913 Webster] This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] { Pithy gall} ( Zool.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly ({ Diastrophus nebulosus}). [ 1913 Webster] 99 Moby Thesaurus words for " pithy": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, allegorical, aphoristic, aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, baccate, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, connotational, connotative, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, doughy, edematous, effective, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended, extensional, figurative, flabby, fleshy, forceful, formulaic, formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, gnomic, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable, laconic, lean, macerated, masticated, meaning, meaningful, meaty, medullary, metaphorical, mushy, pasty, platitudinous, pointed, pregnant, proverbial, pruned, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, pungent, readable, referential, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, significant, significative, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, substantial, succinct, succulent, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, transferred, truncated
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