N. conciseness,
brevity, "the soul of wit",
laconism,
tacitus,
ellipsis,
syncope,
abridgment, compression,
epitome,
monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word
Adj. concise, brief, short,
terse, close, to the point, exact,
neat, compact, compressed,
condensed, pointed,
laconic,
curt,
pithy,
trenchant, summary,
pregnant,
compendious,
succinct,
elliptical,
epigrammatic,
quaint,
crisp,
sententious Adv. concisely, briefly,
summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio
Vigor Roget’s Thesaurus §574 N. vigor, power, force, boldness,
raciness, # intellectual, force, spirit, point,
antithesis, piquance,
piquancy,
verve,
glow, fire,
warmth, strong language, gravity,
sententiousness, elevation,
loftiness,
sublimity, eloquence, command of words, command of language
Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible,
trenchant,
incisive, impressive,
sensational, spirited, lively,
glowing,
sparkling,
racy, bold,
slashing,
pungent,
piquant, full of point, pointed,
pithy,
antithetical,
sententious, lofty, elevated,
sublime,
eloquent,
vehement,
petulant, impassioned, poetic
Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms
Phr. "thoughts that breath and words that burn"
N. ornament, floridness c, adj,
turgidity,
turgescence,
altiloquence,
declamation, teratology|, well-rounded periods,
elegance,
orotundity, inversion,
antithesis,
alliteration,
paronomasia, figurativeness,
flourish, flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric, frills of style,
euphuism,
euphemism, big-sounding words, high-sounding words,
macrology, sesquipedalia verba,
alexandrine,
inflation, pretension,
rant,
bombast,
fustian, prose run mad, fine writing, sesquipedality, minerva press, phrasemonger,
euphuist, euphemist
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge, smell of the lamp
Adj. ornament,
beautified,
ornate,
florid, rich,
flowery,
euphuistic,
euphemistic,
sonorous,
high-sounding, big- sounding, inflated, swelling,
tumid,
turgid,
turgescent,
pedantic,
pompous,
stilted,
orotund, high flown, high flowing,
sententious,
rhetorical,
declamatory,
grandiose,
grandiloquent,
magniloquent,
altiloquent,
sesquipedal,
sesquipedalian,
johnsonian, mouthy,
bombastic,
fustian,
frothy,
flashy, flaming,
antithetical,
alliterative,
figurative, artificial
Adv. ore rutundo
