Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pithy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pithy \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.]
1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith;
as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.
--Dryden.
In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
--Addison.
{Pithy gall} (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong
gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
({Diastrophus nebulosus}).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pithy
adj : concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
"the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which
Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {sententious}]
adv : in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself
pithily" [syn: {sententiously}]
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