epigrammatic's Usage Examples:

The style of the Epodes is pointed and epigrammatic, that of the Satires natural and familiar.

His style is clear and vigorous, and not unfrequently terse and epigrammatic.

Its natural form is the aphorism, and to this and to its epigrammatic brilliance, vigour, and uncompromising revolt against all conventions in science and conduct it owes its persuasiveness.

Emerson's style is brilliant, epigrammatic, gem-like; clear in sentences, obscure in paragraphs.

It aims less at clearness and vividness than at epigrammatic point.

His style ranges from the brilliancy of his youth to the sternness and sombre gravity of age, passing almost to poetic expression in its epigrammatic terseness.

Clyn the Franciscan annalist, whose Latinity is so far above the medieval level as almost to recall Tacitus, sums up Lysaght's career epigrammatically: " He was a slave, he became a master; he was a subject, he became a prince (de servo dominus, de subjecto princeps effectus).

These characteristics reappear (accompanied, however, by frequent touches of the epigrammatic power above mentioned, which seems to have come to Thiers more readily as an orator or a journalist than as an historian) in his speeches, which after his death were collected in many volumes by his widow.

The Letters are models of graceful thought and refined expression, each of them dealing with a single topic and generally ending with an epigrammatic point.

The style is quaint and epigrammatic;.

"Lessing's theory of the origin of the epigram is somewhat fanciful, but no other critic has offered so many pregnant hints as to the laws of epigrammatic verse, or defended with so much force and ingenuity the character of Martial.

Synonyms:

aphoristic, concise, apothegmatic,

Antonyms:

wordiness, long-winded, voluble, prolix,