pithy

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

pithier

Superlative

pithiest

1.
Concise and meaningful.
2.
Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.
1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers, Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?
1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April, Parsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.
3.
(Scotland, archaic)(now rare and chiefly Scotland) Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

terseconciselaconic succinctbrief and to the point terse, concise, laconic, succinct

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unpithypithily pithiness

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English pithy,pythy, equivalent to pith + -y.