What does laconic mean?

laconic means "brief and to the point; effectively cut short".

How many syllables are in laconic?

laconic has 3 syllables: la-co-nic. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /lɑˈkɑnɪk/.

What is another word for laconic?

Close synonyms include crisp, curt, terse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laconic a common word?

laconic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with laconic?

2 words rhyme with laconic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Laconic — meaning and how to say it: lah-KAH-nik

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
brief and to the point; effectively cut short
“a crisp retort”
“a response so curt as to be almost rude”
“the laconic reply; `yes'”
“short and terse and easy to understand”
Synonymscrisp curt terse
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How many syllables are in laconic?

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