pithy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite concise and full of meaning
    sententious.
    • welcomed her pithy comments
    • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

WordNet

Pith"y adjective
Wordforms
comparative Pithier ; superlative Pithiest
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913