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monosyllabic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of monosyllabic

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

the sullen teenager would give only a monosyllabic response to even the friendliest question

Synonyms of monosyllabic

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

Words Related to monosyllabic

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

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of monosyllabic

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of monosyllabic

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

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