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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: pithy (0.01897 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to pithy.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pithy
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pithy
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pithy
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 (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong
gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
(
Diastrophus nebulosus).
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