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aphoristic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of aphoristic

marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning

retorted with the aphoristic comment, "No one said life is fair"

Synonyms of aphoristic

apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail

Words Related to aphoristic

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of aphoristic

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of aphoristic

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

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