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| taconic mountains | (n) a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont | | laconically | (adv) in a dry laconic manner; he said dryly, Syn. dryly, drily |
| | Taconic | a. (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconic | { } a. [ L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_; a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf. F. laconique. ] 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. [ 1913 Webster ] I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] His sense was strong and his style laconic. Welwood. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. [ 1913 Webster ] His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy. -- Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Laconical | | Laconic | n. Laconism. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconical | a. See Laconic, a. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconically | adv. In a laconic manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconicism | n. Same as Laconism. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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| | | laconic | (ละคอน'นิค) adj. ใช้คำน้อย, กะทัดรัด, พูดสั้น ๆ, See also: laconically adv. ดูlaconic, Syn. concise |
| | laconic | (adj) พูดน้อย, ห้วน, กะทัดรัด |
| | | | | Laconic | { } a. [ L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_; a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf. F. laconique. ] 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; concise; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. [ 1913 Webster ] I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] His sense was strong and his style laconic. Welwood. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or severe; cruel; unflinching. [ 1913 Webster ] His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that laconical discipline pleased him well. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy. -- Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Laconical | | Laconic | n. Laconism. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconical | a. See Laconic, a. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconically | adv. In a laconic manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Laconicism | n. Same as Laconism. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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