pithily

1. 1.

   in a pithy sententious manner

   “she expressed herself pithily”

   Synonymssententiously

Questions about pithily

What does pithily mean?

pithily means "in a pithy sententious manner".

How many syllables are in pithily?

pithily has 3 syllables: pi-thi-ly. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for pithily?

Close synonyms include sententiously. 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 pithily a common word?

pithily 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.