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Pronunciation : La*con"ic, La*con"ic*al
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. laconique.]
Definition : 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. His sense was strong and his style laconic. Welwood.

2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall.

Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy. -- Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : La*con"ic
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Laconism. [Obs.] Addison.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913