Word "LACONIC" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
brief and to the point; effectively cut short
Synonyms:
crisp, curt, terse
Examples:
the laconic reply; `yes'

Crossword Clues for LACONIC

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Sparing with words after an accident with colic (7)
Frugal with words
Sententious, perhaps, but brief and to the point (7)
Expressing or using few words in speech. (7)
Lack of nice characters at the end falling short The Telegraph Cryptic 28 May 2025
Can coil round it if expressed in few words (7)
Tory in 4 brief (7) The Guardian Cryptic 29 Apr 2025
Of few words The Times Concise 18 Apr 2025
Using few words Wall Street Journal 17 Mar 2025
Colin worried about cooling device being short (7)
Almost silent city having a solid figure (7) Puzzler Cryptic 01 Feb 2025
Using few words, terse (7)
Using few words (in reference to the succinct style of Spartan speech) (7)
Brief closure of jail with a prisoner in charge The Telegraph Cryptic 31 Dec 2024
Short City fraud extremely idiotic The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Dec 2024
Sententiously brief, it can coil around (7)
Short kid - one dressed in lace mostly (7)
US city with right-winger in charge? That's not saying much The Telegraph Cryptic 28 Oct 2024
Pithy (7) The Guardian Quick 07 Oct 2024
Terse The Times Concise 17 Sep 2024
Brief explains nucleus, tapering (7)
Short liberal American politician in charge The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Sep 2024
Brief left in charge defends a criminal (7) The Guardian Cryptic 03 Jul 2024
It's short and possibly conical
Sententiously brief
Los Angeles has a certain geometric shape, in brief (7)
Terse line given by a Conservative in charge (7)
Not saying much about the French study being pronouncedly icy (7)
Succinct, putting the French prisoner in charge Mirror Cryptic 15 May 2024
Concise Mirror Quick 15 May 2024
Succinct, terse (7) The Guardian Speedy 12 May 2024
Use few words so as to appear indifferent or uninterested (7)
Around the North, calico is made brief (7)
Expressing in few words (7)
Short and oddly conical (7)
Currently, Colin has become sententiously brief (7)
Being Spartan in the use of words (7)
US city prisoner in charge to be concise (7)
Brief description of the Spartans (7)
Conical and concise (7)
In France the party in charge is short
Curt The Guardian Speedy 24 Dec 2023
Miss mostly in charge penning working brief (7)
Bill taken in by Colin in trouble not using many words (7)
Taciturn, terse The Times Concise 06 Oct 2023
Terse US city conservative in charge The Guardian Quiptic 11 Sep 2023
Pithy The Guardian Quick 24 Jun 2023
Concise note coming to the point? The Times Cryptic 28 Oct 2022
Leading pair of lawyers venerated, though losing first brief The Times Cryptic 27 Oct 2022
Terse LA Times Daily 07 Aug 2022
Saying little, Nicola’s mad about Charlie The Times Cryptic 29 Jul 2022
Succinct New York Times 02 Jul 2022
Short coil can, when twisted The Times Cryptic 05 May 2022
Hasn't much to say to The French Connection's three leading characters in charge Irish Times Crosaire 16 Apr 2022
Secular Tory introduced Blunt
To the point The Telegraph Quick 13 Nov 2021
Using few words The Times Concise 22 Oct 2021
Saying few words, the French Commander-in-Chief holding on The Times Cryptic 18 Oct 2021
Of few words The Guardian Speedy 10 Oct 2021
Conical (anag) The Guardian Speedy 11 Jul 2021
Terse The Telegraph Quick 08 Apr 2021
Expressed in few words The Guardian Speedy 07 Mar 2021
Saying little boy almost in shape for ice cream?
Brief article in Paris Match coming to a point
Curt, Bill eaten by desperate lion, cold
Saying little The Times Concise 24 Dec 2019
Short cloak, cool -- no itch when used off and on The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Dec 2019
Nicola, awfully cold and saying little
Brief party outside the Church houses
Terse Thomas Joseph 14 Oct 2019
Using few words The Times Concise 09 Jul 2019
Hasn't much to say to The French Connection's three leading characters in charge Irish Times Crosaire 06 Jul 2019
Not saying much Newsday 11 Apr 2019
Of few words The Guardian Speedy 10 Mar 2019
Curt, terse Irish Times Simplex 19 Jan 2019
Far from wordy Thomas Joseph 10 Nov 2018
Can coil around to the point
The French company almost fair and using few words
Terse; concise The Telegraph Quick 17 Sep 2018
The Parisian, a figure in mathematics, is saying few words The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Aug 2018
To the point New York Times 11 May 2018
A large sum put on Indian champion's first brief
Need cordial knight to leave, in short
To the point
Saying few words, endlessly beat a cheat inside
Nicola Charles's first acting brief
Short party, secular hosts The Times Cryptic 24 May 2017
Short party, secular hosts
Terse The Guardian Speedy 13 May 2017
It's conical shape, in brief
Tersely spoken The Times Concise 15 Feb 2017
He said: if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy you; they said: 'if' - it's an example of a pithy reply Irish Times Crosaire 10 Dec 2016
Using few words The Telegraph Quick 26 Nov 2016
Almost secular company endlessly pleasant and to the point
Brief and to the point The Guardian Quick 02 Sep 2016
Of few words Newsday 03 Jul 2016
Brief half of police catching a criminal The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Sep 2015
Concise in speech
Brief of those not ministers to restrain right winger
Terse, cheat in secular surroundings
Extremely elusive black icon dancing with little expression
Concise in speech
Having little to declare?
Terse
Not windy at all
Terse
Concise
Concise
Terse
Like a person of few words
Concise
Unwordy
To the point
Like Coolidge
Dryly said
Using few words
Saying few words, the French Commander-in-Chief holding on
Pithy
Short coil can, when twisted
Terse
Concise
Like a Spartan's speech
Sparing of words
Tight-lipped
Sententious.
Expressing much in few words.
Expressing much in a few words.
Concise.
Not longwinded.
Economical with words.
Wasting no words.
Terse.
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