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telegraphic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of telegraphic

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

when dealing with her staff, she communicated mostly in telegraphic sentences and meaningful looks

Synonyms of telegraphic

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

Words Related to telegraphic

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

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of telegraphic

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of telegraphic

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

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