breviloquent

/brɛˈvɪləkwənt/

Anyone who's breviloquent manages to say a lot using a small number of words. A perfectly expressive, deeply moving haiku is a breviloquent form of poetry — just three brief lines.

Speaking with brevity, or conciseness, makes you breviloquent. Both words are derived from the Latin root brevis, or "short." If you like to keep things short and sweet, your friends may describe you as breviloquent. And while some writers produce fat, sprawling novels of 600 pages, others create breviloquent poems using very few, carefully chosen words.

Definitions of breviloquent

1. adjective

   expressing much in few words
   synonyms: concise

   aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic

   terse and witty and like a maxim

   brief

   concise and succinct

   compact, compendious, succinct, summary

   briefly giving the gist of something

   crisp, curt, laconic, terse

   brief and to the point; effectively cut short

   cryptic

   having a puzzling terseness

   elliptic, elliptical

   characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements

   pithy, sententious

   concise and full of meaning

   telegraphic

   having the style of a telegram with many short words left out

   taciturn

   habitually reserved and uncommunicative