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Epigrammatic definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EPIGRAMMAT'IC
EPIGRAMMAT'ICAL, a. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as an epigrammatic poet.
1. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; concise; pointed; poignant; as epigrammatic style or wit.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1694 1. of, relating to, or resembling an epigram 2. marked by or given to the use of epigrams • epigrammatically adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Epigrammatic Ep`i*gram*mat"ic, Epigrammatical Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al, [L. epigrammaticus: cf. F. ['e]pigrammatique.] 1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet. 2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also epigrammatical) Concise, laconic, terse, pointed, antithetic, poignant, piquant, sharp, pungent.

Moby Thesaurus

aphoristic, apophthegmatic, apothegmatic, compendious, concise, laconic, piquant, pithy, pointed, proverbial, punchy, pungent, sententious, snappy, succinct, terse, trenchant, witty