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Definizione monolingua


pithy


Adjective

pithy (comparative pithier, superlative pithiest)


  1. Concise and meaningful.
    • 1825, William Hazlitt, Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon, in The Spirit of the Age,
      Mr. Lamb, on the contrary, being ""native to the manner here,"" though he too has borrowed from previous sources, instead of availing himself of the most popular and admired, has groped out his way, and made his most successful researches among the more obscure and intricate, though certainly not the least pithy or pleasant of our writers.
    • 1873 April 25, Obituary - Justus Liebig, in William Crookes (editor), The Chemical News,
      The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- ""In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness.""
    • 1876, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, On the Gratitude we owe our Enemies, in Shells from the Sands of Time,
      IT was a pithy saying that of Lorenzo de Medici, and true as pithy, that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we should forgive our friends.
  2. Of, like, or abounding in pith.
    • 1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers,
      Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?
    • 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,
      Parsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.
    • 1911, Mushroom, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
      To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly pithy.

Definizione dizionario pithy


conciso
sugosa
sugoso
vigoroso

Altri significati:
  brief and to the point
  Of, like, or abounding in pith.
  Concise and full of meaning.
  Brief and to the point.

Traduzione pithy


conciso ,sugosa ,sugoso ,vigoroso

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