"laconic" meaning in English

See laconic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ləˈkɒnɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ləˈkɑnɪk/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-laconic.ogg , en-au-laconic.ogg Forms: more laconic [comparative], most laconic [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒnɪk Etymology: Wikiquote Wikidata From Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), from Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós, “Laconian”). Laconia was the region inhabited and ruled by the Spartans, who were known for their brevity in speech. Etymology templates: {{wikiquote|Laconic phrases}} Wikiquote, {{wikidata|Q577034|Laconic phrases}} Wikidata, {{der|en|la|Lacōnicus||Spartan}} Latin Lacōnicus (“Spartan”), {{der|en|grc|Λακωνικός||Laconian}} Ancient Greek Λακωνικός (Lakōnikós, “Laconian”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} laconic (comparative more laconic, superlative most laconic)
  1. Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. Translations (using as few words as possible): лаканічны (lakaničny) (Belarusian), лаконичен (lakoničen) [masculine] (Bulgarian), lacònic (Catalan), 簡潔 /简洁 (jiǎnjié) (Chinese Mandarin), lakonický (Czech), lakonisk (Danish), kortfattet (Danish), lakooniline (Estonian), lakoninen (Finnish), lyhytsanainen (Finnish), niukkasanainen (Finnish), laconique (French), lakonisch (German), wortkarg (German), λακωνικός (lakonikós) (Greek), lakonik (Haitian Creole), לקוני (lakoni) (Hebrew), lakonikus (Hungarian), szűkszavú (Hungarian), szófukar (Hungarian), gearr-abartha (Irish), laconico [masculine] (Italian), 簡潔 (kanketsu) (alt: かんけつ) (Japanese), ла́конски (lákonski) (Macedonian), ringkas (Malay), lakonisk (Norwegian Bokmål), lakonisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), lakoniczny (Polish), lacónico [Portugal] (Portuguese), lacônico [Brazil] (Portuguese), laconic (Romanian), лакони́чный (lakoníčnyj) (Russian), немногосло́вный (nemnogoslóvnyj) (Russian), làkōnskī (Serbo-Croatian), lakòničan (Serbo-Croatian), lacónico (Spanish), lakonisk (Swedish), สั้น (sân) (Thai), กระชับ (grà-cháp) (Thai), รวบรัด (Thai), กะทัดรัด (gà-tát-rát) (Thai), สั้นได้ใจความ (sân-dâai-jai-kwaam) (Thai), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) (Tibetan), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) (Tibetan), ཁ་ཉུང (kha nyung) (Tibetan), лаконічний (lakoničnyj) (Ukrainian), byreiriog (Welsh), laconig (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-laconic-en-adj-nLWaR-Nn Disambiguation of 'using as few words as possible': 98 2
  2. (Australia, sometimes proscribed) Laidback; casual; not intense. Tags: Australia, proscribed, sometimes Categories (topical): Talking
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: concise, pithy, terse, laconick [obsolete] Related terms: laconical, laconically, laconism, spartan

Alternative forms

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      "word": "לקוני"
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
      "word": "簡潔"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "roman": "lakoníčnyj",
      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
      "word": "лакони́чный"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
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      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
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      "roman": "tshig nyung don tshang",
      "sense": "using as few words as possible",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང"
    },
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      "word": "ཁ་ཉུང"
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