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pithy

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++pith·y /ˈpɪθi/ adjective  INTELLIGENTif something that is said or written is pithy, it is intelligent and strongly stated, without wasting any words 简练的 OPP long-winded Press releases must be short and pithy. 新闻稿务必言简意赅。 a series of pithy quotations 一系列精练引述pithily adverb
Examples from the Corpus
pithyPress releases must be pithy, and full of substance and strong, clear comment.It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.They may make use of the brevity of Latin tags, just as pithy as any adman's lingo.Zehme wrote the pithy comments that accompany each picture.No plodding academic tome, this Virginia Woolf is, like its subject, smart, pithy, engaging.Though not a natural speaker his pithy style, backed by his fame and renunciation, strengthened the Student Volunteer Missionary movement.
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pithy
pithy /ˈpɪθi/ adjective
if something that is said or written is pithy, it is intelligent and strongly stated, without wasting any words
   OPP  long-winded:
    Press releases must be short and pithy.
    a series of pithy quotations
—pithily adverb


pithyBrE /ˈpɪθi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɪθi/ 🔊 adjective (approving) (pith·ier, pithi·est) (of a comment, piece of writing, etc. 说话或文章等) short but expressed well and full of meaning 言简意赅的;精练的 pith·ily BrE /ˈpɪθɪli/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɪθɪli/ 🔊 adverbpithily expressed简洁地表达的