laconical

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: la=con=i=cal

CIDE DICTIONARY

laconical, a. [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr. , fr. a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf. F. laconique.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "His sense was strong and his style laconic."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."

Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy.

laconical, a. 

 See Laconic, a.  [1913 Webster]