Synonyms for laconic
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Terse — of speech or writing, communicative through the use of as few words as possible
terse, succinct, concise, curt, pithy, brief, short, crisp, compact, summary, lapidary, epigrammatic, sententious, condensed, compendious
2. Taciturn — of a speaker or writer, communicating through the use of as few words as possible
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Of speech or writing, communicative through the use of as few words as possible.
- adj. 2
Of a speaker or writer, communicating through the use of as few words as possible.
Near-synonyms: taciturn, untalkative, terse, quiet, spartan
Related words
- Word family
- laconicism laconical laconically
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Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- concise Either one is fine, but the former is more concise.
- curt Don't you think it's rude to give people such a curt reply like that?
- succinct The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.
- terse He was always terse on the telephone.
By length
- 4 letters
- curt1
- 5 letters
- short1, quiet2, brief1, crisp1, terse1, pithy2
- 7 letters
- summary3, compact2, concise2, spartan2
- 8 letters
- succinct2, taciturn3, lapidary4
- 9 letters
- condensed2, laconical
- 11 letters
- compendious, sententious, untalkative
- 12 letters
- epigrammatic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quiet2 = 2 syllables).