laconic

Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

Pertaining to Laconia or its inhabitants; Lacedæmonian or Spartan.

Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the ancient Laconians; sententious; pithy; short; brief: as, a laconic phrase.

Characteristic of the Laconians; inexorable; stern; severe.

Synonyms Condensed, Succinct, etc. See concise.

Conciseness of language; laconicism.

A concise, pithy expression; something expressed in a concise, pithy manner; a laconism: chiefly used in the plural: as, to talk in laconics.

In ancient prosody, an anapestic tetrameter catalectic with a spondee instead of the penultimate anapest . So called as a variety of the tetrameter used in the Laconian or Spartan embateria.

Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form.

Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching.