Synonyms of monosyllabic

monosyllabic

adjective

ˌmä-nə-sə-ˈla-bik 

as in concise

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 & Similar Words

• concise
• brief
• summary
• terse
• laconic
• epigrammatic
• curt
• pithy
• succinct
• short
• aphoristic
• blunt
• telegraphic
• sententious
• compact
• elliptical
• capsule
• compendious
• crisp
• thumbnail
• brusque
• abbreviated
• abrupt
• condensed
• apothegmatic
• shortened
• meaningful
• curtailed
• meaty
• abridged
• snippy
• substantial
• snippety
• significant
• well-turned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wordy
• verbose
• prolix
• redundant
• diffuse
• repetitious
• circuitous
• rambling
• tautological
• windy
• circumlocutory
• long-winded
• enlarged
• exaggerated
• pleonastic
• tautologous
• supplemented
• inflated
• expanded
• embroidered
• embellished

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of monosyllabic

Rick likens his son’s interactions with the media to those of Bill Belichick, the legendary football coach and master of the monosyllabic press conference. — Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026

Borges tells us that in Tlön’s Ursprache there are no nouns; instead, there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic prefixes with an adverbial value. — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025

The Chinese language, unlike alphabetic languages, uses more brain regions due to its monosyllabic, tonal, and logographic nature, which makes understanding brain signals more complex. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2025

Eva, a monosyllabic Finn about my age who dressed in head-to-toe black, seemed uninterested in most of what was happening around her, including me. — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024