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Definition of epigrammatic in English: epigrammaticadjective ˌɛpɪɡrəˈmatɪkˌɛpəɡrəˈmædɪk In the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing. 警句（式）的；讽刺短诗（般）的；简洁有趣的 警句风格。 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
- This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand.
- He is marvelous in a rare recording of the complete Op 11, giving emphasis to the epigrammatic qualities of these elegant works.
- Even on his very first visit to New York, in 1932, and rather like Oscar Wilde before him, Dali captivated journalists and the general public with examples of an outrageous, epigrammatic wit.
- His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
- He re-inserts an oft-skipped scene about settling financial matters, and he deadens scene after scene by turning the epigrammatic dialogue into a minefield.
- In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis.
- The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
- Along the way the reader continually encounters hard nuggets of epigrammatic truth.
- Their ethereal, angular post-punk replication is competent but anonymous, and their lyrics are epigrammatic bordering on cryptic, serving as ideal, nondescript verbal placeholders.
- Bacon, in his Essays, adopts an epigrammatic style.
- Despite the pain, and his reliance on liquid morphine to control it, his style is almost epigrammatic and always to the point.
- So the short form doesn't get the credit it deserves, but to people who have a taste for the epigrammatic, the short form has an incomparable allure.
- His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors.
- And on that epigrammatic, but fundamentally flawed theory, I'll leave you.
- The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice; La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes.
- It is the most witty and epigrammatic of all Taylor's works.
- The Uruguayan writes in short, epigrammatic sentences and breaks up his book into many chapters, each running to not more than half-a-dozen paragraphs.
- It poses a series of rhetorical questions on how a poet may be recognized and ends in an epigrammatic fashion, revealing its answer succinctly at the end.
- Such sketches are sprinkled throughout the memoirs, often interspersed with pithy, epigrammatic reflections on Brecht, Wittgenstein and Oscar Wilde and asides on subjects such as the film cliché or the comic jest.
Synonyms concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief laconic, sparing, clipped, elliptical tight, crisp, incisive, pointed, to the point, short and sweet witty, clever, amusing, quick-witted, piquant, ingenious sharp, trenchant, well tuned, finely honed, in well-chosen words informal snappy rare lapidary, compendious, synoptic, gnomic, apophthegmatic
Derivativesadverb To put it epigrammatically, the totality of the modern state seems to require unconditional surrender as a necessary correlative of its total wars. Example sentencesExamples - Until the 20th century, it simply did not occur to rulers that they could second every aspect of national life to the pursuit of their policies of which, as Clausewitz epigrammatically observed, war is merely a continuation.
- He has a quote from Kurt Vonnegut epigrammatically placed on his site.
Rhymesachromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic Definition of epigrammatic in US English: epigrammaticadjectiveˌɛpəɡrəˈmædɪkˌepəɡrəˈmadik Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing. 警句（式）的；讽刺短诗（般）的；简洁有趣的 警句风格。 Example sentencesExamples - Such sketches are sprinkled throughout the memoirs, often interspersed with pithy, epigrammatic reflections on Brecht, Wittgenstein and Oscar Wilde and asides on subjects such as the film cliché or the comic jest.
- It poses a series of rhetorical questions on how a poet may be recognized and ends in an epigrammatic fashion, revealing its answer succinctly at the end.
- And on that epigrammatic, but fundamentally flawed theory, I'll leave you.
- Even on his very first visit to New York, in 1932, and rather like Oscar Wilde before him, Dali captivated journalists and the general public with examples of an outrageous, epigrammatic wit.
- Their ethereal, angular post-punk replication is competent but anonymous, and their lyrics are epigrammatic bordering on cryptic, serving as ideal, nondescript verbal placeholders.
- So the short form doesn't get the credit it deserves, but to people who have a taste for the epigrammatic, the short form has an incomparable allure.
- He re-inserts an oft-skipped scene about settling financial matters, and he deadens scene after scene by turning the epigrammatic dialogue into a minefield.
- The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famous for saying you cannot stand in the same river twice; La Rochefoucauld perfected this epigrammatic style in the 17th century in his Maximes.
- He is marvelous in a rare recording of the complete Op 11, giving emphasis to the epigrammatic qualities of these elegant works.
- It is the most witty and epigrammatic of all Taylor's works.
- Along the way the reader continually encounters hard nuggets of epigrammatic truth.
- Despite the pain, and his reliance on liquid morphine to control it, his style is almost epigrammatic and always to the point.
- In length he prefers the epigrammatic and in form he is an adept formalist, acknowledging his antecedents in the farmer-poets of the past, Frost, Horace and Theognis.
- The Uruguayan writes in short, epigrammatic sentences and breaks up his book into many chapters, each running to not more than half-a-dozen paragraphs.
- Bacon, in his Essays, adopts an epigrammatic style.
- His epigrammatic paragraphs turn the photographs they puzzle over into allegories and metaphors.
- This epigrammatic style is fun, but if repeated one becomes aware that it points as much towards the author's cleverness as the subject in hand.
- Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
- The prose is of a rare stateliness and intelligence, studded with clever, sometimes almost epigrammatic mots.
- His fragments are in a pointed, epigrammatic style, probably due to sophistic influence.
Synonyms concise, succinct, terse, pithy, aphoristic, compact, condensed, compressed, short, brief
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