Epigrammatic

Word EPIGRAMMATIC
Character 12
Hyphenation ep i gram mat ic
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Epigrammatic"

What do we mean by epigrammatic?

Of or having the nature of an epigram. adjective

Containing or given to the use of epigrams. adjective

Dealing in epigrams; speaking or writing in epigram: as, an epigrammatic poet.

Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; having the quality of an epigram; antithetical; pointed: as, epigrammatic style or wit.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams.

Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant.

Having the characteristics of an epigram adjective

Containing or using epigrams adjective

Terse and witty and like a maxim adjective

Having the characteristics of an epigram

Containing or using epigrams

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The word "epigrammatic" in example sentences

Heretofore Biblical writers have given to us battles, laws, histories, songs; now we have in Solomon's writings a new style in short, epigrammatic sentences. ❋ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1858)

She was herself a humorist -- writing entertaining light verses -- and a vivacious talker 'uniting,' it was said, 'strong common sense with a lively imagination' and a crisp epigrammatic phrase .... ❋ Linda (2009)

But it is an elegy with no tears, only a clear-headed acknowledgment that, in the novel's most famous epigrammatic nugget of wisdom, "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

He was quite as able to be terse and memorable when in conversation and, like Oscar Wilde (who was, like him, disconcertingly vast when seen at close quarters), seems seldom to have been off duty when it came to the epigrammatic and aphoristic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is the deeper meaning behind the epigrammatic phrase of the novel and film--"Who is John Galt?" ❋ Michael Shermer (2011)

If I had Bill Bryson's wit and epigrammatic suavity and his ability to make each datum ripple seamlessly into the next. ❋ Louis Bayard (2010)

IF I WERE TO MAKE STATUS of my own poetry, all my poems have epigrammatic qualities. ❋ David McDuff (2010)

The rhythmically taut, epigrammatic libretto by WH Auden and Chester Kallman makes tongue-twisting demands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those of us who love Maureen Dowd for the metaphysical conceits of her epigrammatic Swiftian op-eds feel itchy and uncomfortable with the intensification of this electronic gross-out contest. ❋ Giles Slade (2010)

They record his suave, erudite, epigrammatic peregrinations around Oxfordshire and Berkshire as the world economic collapse of that year took place around him. ❋ Philip French (2010)

Goethe embodied many of the contending strands in art over the next century: his work could be lushly emotional, and rigorously formal, brief and epigrammatic, and epic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For what it's worth, I think Biden's strength as a speaker is the epigrammatic rather than the epic, the short rather than the long, the pithy remark rather than the extended narrative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/7/09: Afghanistan No Exit yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Afghanistan No Exit'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Further evidence that the peace-prize-president – while outwardly engaging in his usual “enigmatic and epigrammatic split-the-baby-in-half Yoda/Spock-speak” – was actually proposing to wage war more intensely -- and not only for eighteen months, after which we all get to go home.' ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a great speech -- Peck has always been among the best of our writer-speakers -- and his epigrammatic style can be pure poetry. ❋ Roger Sutton (2007)

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