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pithy

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"Brief and meaningful"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɪθi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted hiptyStarts with PEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. concise and full of meaning

Word origin

From Middle English pithy, pythy, equivalent to pith + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness."
  • IT was a pithy saying that of Lorenzo de' Medici, and true as pithy, that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we should forgive our friends.
  • 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April, Parsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.

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