Definition for Laconic:

• Short; brief; pithy; expressing much in few words.

Synonyms for Laconic:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • crisp,
  • laconic.
  •bluff (adjective)
  • more blustering,
  • out-spoken,
  • out spoken,
  • more bearish,
  • most bearish,
  • most breviloquent,
  • more plain-spoken,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • gruff,
  • short spoken,
  • shortspoken,
  • most plain-spoken,
  • more plain spoken,
  • plain spoken,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • un ceremonious,
  • nononsense,
  • more breviloquent,
  • most blustering,
  • heartiest,
  • most plain spoken.
  •brief (adjective)
  • short sweet,
  • more compendiary,
  • most compendiary,
  • to point,
  • limited,
  • boiled down.
  •compact (adjective)
  • in nutshell,
  • make long story short,
  • epigrammatic.
  •compendious (adjective)
  • synoptic.
  •concise (adjective)
  • study at concise,
  • uncommunicative,
  • sententious,
  • taciturn.
  •curt (adjective)
  • un-civil,
  • un civil,
  • un gracious,
  • un-gracious,
  • peremptory,
  • snappish.
  •economical (adjective)
  • spartan.
  •pithy (adjective)
  • more short and sweet,
  • most short-and-sweet,
  • down brass tacks,
  • more honed,
  • most honed,
  • most short and sweet,
  • more short-and-sweet.
  •sententious (adjective)
  • more moralistic,
  • most moralistic,
  • moralistic.
  •short (adjective)
  • decurtate,
  • under-sized,
  • cut to bone,
  • short,
  • Curtate,
  • cut to the bone,
  • Unsustained,
  • shortest,
  • not protracted,
  • unprolonged.
  •short, to the point (adjective)
  • brusque,
  • short and sweet.
  •silent (adjective)
  • wordless,
  • iced,
  • hushed,
  • dummied up,
  • struck dumb,
  • buttoned up,
  • not talkative,
  • clammed up,
  • Inconversable,
  • unheard,
  • closed up,
  • Nonvocal,
  • Husher,
  • Silentious,
  • unspeaking.
  •spartan (adjective)
  • un-daunted,
  • un daunted,
  • more disciplined,
  • most disciplined.
  •succinct (adjective)
  • in few words.
  •summary (adjective)
  • more run-through,
  • most run-through,
  • re-hashed,
  • most compacted,
  • runthrough,
  • more run through,
  • re capped,
  • more runthrough,
  • most rehashed,
  • recapped,
  • most recapped,
  • most run through,
  • re-capped,
  • more rehashed,
  • more compacted,
  • most runthrough,
  • re hashed,
  • more recapped.
  •taciturn (adjective)
  • incommunicative,
  • dried-up,
  • Incommunicable,
  • anti-social,
  • tightlipped,
  • unforthcoming,
  • unexpressive,
  • dried up,
  • uncommunicable.
  •terse (adjective)
  • ex-act,
  • most gnomic,
  • taut,
  • ex act,
  • more gnomic,
  • most clipped,
  • more clipped.
  •tightlipped (adjective)
  • tight lipped.
  •uncommunicable (adjective)
  • un communicable,
  • un-communicable.

• n.

  •
  • economical,
  • quiet.
  •
  • words,
  • style,
  • big,
  • lean.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • brevity.

Antonyms for Laconic:

• adj.

  • short, to the point
    verbose, wordy, long-winded.
  • Other antonyms:
    gossipy, diffuse, outgoing, communicative, extroverted, sociable, exaggerated, long, free-spoken, vocal, expanded, unreserved, gregarious, redundant, embroidered, embellished, windy, Tautologous, enlarged, blabby, lengthy, repetitious, inflated, talebearing, tedious, tautological.

Laconic Sentence Examples:

• " I'm sure I congratulate you both," Constance breathed, realizing the import of Mr. Critchlow's laconic words.

• Possibly one would not find analogous features in other backward children, who tend rather to be laconic; but it is also possible that a careful analysis of their mental state might reveal in them other mental symptoms, and, indeed, such are very obvious in the variety called " unstable" or " ill - balanced."

Homophones for Laconic:

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