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pithy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. --Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. --Addison. {Pithy gall} (Zo["o]l.), a large rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly ({Diastrophus nebulosus}). From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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