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say it: PITH-ee
pithy is an adjective meaning "concise and full of meaning". It is pronounced /ˈpɪθi/ — PITH-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
concise and full of meaning
“welcomed her pithy comments”
“the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pithy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.