Word Meanings - PITHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
Additional info about word: PITHY
1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. Addison. Pithy gall , a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly .
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PITHY)
- Compact \adj Dense
- close
- hard
- solid
- firm
- pithy
- concise
- condensed
- contracted
- compendious
- convenient
- concentrated
- consolidated
- concrete
- Sententious
- Pithy
- pregnant
- thoughtful
- axiomatic
- antithetical
- pointed
- nervous
- didactic
- Terse
- Neat
- smooth
- expressive
- forcible
- energetic
- compact
- succinct
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PITHY)
Related words: (words related to PITHY)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - TERSE
1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants." - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - CONCRETE
grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the - DENSE
1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. - CONSOLIDATED
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) - PREGNANT
1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - CONSOLIDATION
To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the - CONDENSATIVE
Having the property of condensing. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - COMPACT
1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely - COMPACTIBLE
That may be compacted. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - SOLIDUNGULA
A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - CONVENIENTLY
In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. - PROTRACTIVE
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - RECONDENSATION
The act or process of recondensing. - INCONCRETE
Not concrete. L. Andrews. - ENFORCIBLE
That may be enforced.