7 definitions found for epigrammatic

Epigrammatic 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.

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

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

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.

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

epigrammatic adj. pithy, terse, laconic, concise, succinct, compendious, piquant, pungent, trenchant, sententious, witty, pointed, proverbial, aphoristic, apophthegmatic or apothegmatic, Colloq snappy, punchy: Oscar Wilde is known for his epigrammatic sayings.

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "epigrammatic": aphoristic, apophthegmatic, apothegmatic, compendious, concise, laconic, piquant, pithy, pointed, proverbial, punchy, pungent, sententious, snappy, succinct, terse, trenchant, witty