monostich

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mon=o=stich

CIDE DICTIONARY

monostich, n. [Gr. , from consisting of one verse; mo`nos single + sti`chos line, verse.].

 A composition consisting of one verse only.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

monostich

Conciseness

N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, 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, 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, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.