Found 2 items, similar to Pithiest.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pithiest 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] pithiest See pithy
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pithiest 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. [1913 Webster] This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Pithy gall (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus). [1913 Webster]