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laconic
Meaning: using few words; concise
laconic in a sentence
How laconic is used in real sentences:
Her laconic reply of 'Maybe' told us nothing.
Her laconic reply of 'Maybe' told us nothing.
“Mara's laconic correction—“Ranges, not certainties”—used few words, but it redirected the meeting toward evidence: several bands of similarly sized colonies supported a sequence of retreat, even if no boulder supplied an exact year.”
— from the passage The Moraine Calendar
“Elias, usually laconic when worried, answered with nods and an "Aye." When the pilot praised the altered waterfront as progress, Elias became impertinent: he interrupted the harbormaster's radio orders and asked whether "progress" was the official word for erasing a town.”
— from the passage The Altered Shore
Synonyms for laconic
Other words for laconic — terse, succinct and pithy — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of laconic
Words that mean the opposite of laconic:
- verbose
- loquacious
- wordy
Where it comes from
From Greek Lakonikos, the Spartans (known for brief speech)
Memory hook
LA-CONIC like the terse SPARTANS of Laconia.