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say it: PITH-ee
pithy is an adjective meaning "concise and full of meaning". 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.