Pithier

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pithy \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.]
     1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith;
        as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
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     2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.


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              This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
                                                    --Addison.
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     {Pithy gall} (Zool.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall,
        formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
        ({Diastrophus nebulosus}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pithy
       adj : concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
             "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which
             Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {sententious}]
       adv : in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself
             pithily" [syn: {sententiously}]
       [also: {pithiest}, {pithier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pithier
       See {pithy}