Hypertext Webster Gateway: "epigrammatic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Epigrammatic \Ep`i*gram*mat"ic\, Epigrammatical
\Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al\, [L. epigrammaticus: cf. F.
['e]pigrammatique.]
1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an
epigrammatical poet.

2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an
epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or
sallies of fancy.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

epigrammatic
adj : terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to
apothegmatic instruction" [syn: {aphoristic}, {apothegmatic}]


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