Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compact |
| Synonyms: | aphoristic, concise, pithy, pointed |
| Main Entry: | sententious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concise |
| Synonyms: | abounding, aphoristic, brief, epigrammatic, laconic, meaningful, moralistic, pithy, pompous, pretentious, short, terse |
| Main Entry: | eloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed |
| Antonyms: | dull, inarticulate |
| Main Entry: | formal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stiff, affected, correct |
| Synonyms: | aloof, by the numbers, ceremonious, conventional, decorous, distant, exact, nominal, playing the game, polite, precise, prim, punctilious, reserved, seemly, sententious, starched, stilted, straight arrow, stuffy, unbending |
| Antonyms: | customary, informal, normal, relaxed, unaffected |
| Main Entry: | laconic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, to the point |
| Synonyms: | breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, short and sweet, succinct, terse |
| Antonyms: | long-winded, verbose, wordy |
| Main Entry: | meaningful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | allusive, big, clear, concise, consequential, considerable, deep, eloquent, essential, exact, explicit, expressive, heavy, important, indicative, intelligible, material, momentous, pointed, pregnant, purposeful, relevant, sententious, serious, substantial, succinct, suggestive, useful, valid, weighty, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, meaningless, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | moving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, exciting |
| Synonyms: | affective, arousing, awakening, breathless, dynamic, eloquent, emotional, emotive, expressive, facund, far-out, felt in gut, grabbed by, gripping, hairy*, heartbreaking, heartrending, impelling, impressive, inspirational, inspiring, meaningful, mind-bending, mind-blowing*, motivating, persuasive, poignant, propelling, provoking, quickening, rallying, rousing, sententious, significant, something*, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, stunning, touching, turned on by |
| Antonyms: | unaffecting, unemotional, unexciting, unmoving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pedantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bookish, precise |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted |
| Antonyms: | imprecise, informal |
| Main Entry: | pregnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant, meaningful |
| Synonyms: | charged, cogent, consequential, creative, eloquent, expressive, fecund, imaginative, important, inventive, loaded, momentous, original, pointed, redolent, rich, seminal, sententious, suggestive, telling, weighty |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, trivial, unmeaningful |
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