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Crossword-Solution: PITHY 5 letters, 60 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Pithy superl. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in
pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
Pithy superl. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.

We have 60 clues for the answer “PITHY”

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Tersely cogent 1 answer
Brief and forceful 1 answer
Brief but expressive 1 answer
Brief but meaningful 1 answer
Concise and meaningful 1 answer
Concise and meaty. 1 answer
Concise and substantive 1 answer
Concise, as a saying 1 answer
Embodying brevity 1 answer
Forceful and brief 1 answer
Full of meat or meaning. 1 answer
Like a proverb 1 answer
Like many a Jon Stewart comment 1 answer
Like many adages 1 answer
Like many saws 1 answer
Like mottoes 1 answer
Like well-written aphorisms 1 answer
Marrowy 1 answer
Precisely meaningful 1 answer
Short and meaningful, as a saying 1 answer
Short and pointed 1 answer
Succinct and meaningful 1 answer
Succinct, as a saying 1 answer
Succinct, like a proverb 1 answer
Tellingly brief. 1 answer
Terse and meaningful 1 answer
Terse but meaningful 1 answer
Like an adage 2 answers
Right to the point 2 answers
Full of meaning 3 answers
Full of substance 3 answers
Brief and to the point 5 answers
Wasting no words 5 answers
Short and sweet 5 answers
Short and to the point 5 answers
FULL of meat 6 answers
ADAGES 8 answers
Epigrammatic. 8 answers
Meaty 8 answers
Full of vigor 10 answers
A CONCISE EXPLANATION OF THE MEANING OF A WORD OR PHRASE OR SYMBOL 10 answers
BAR-MITZVAH DANCE 10 answers
bar mitzvah dance 10 answers
CONCISE AND FULL OF MEANING 10 answers
Succinct 11 answers
short and snappy 11 answers
A CONCISE BUT COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF A LARGER WORK 11 answers
A BRIEF STATEMENT THAT PRESENTS THE MAIN POINTS IN A CONCISE FORM 11 answers
compendious 12 answers
Terse 18 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PITHY (5)

Dimmesdale, as the great enemy of souls would have it, could recall no text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Another branch of opinion recommends for bedtime reading short stories, volumes of pithy anecdote, swift and sparkling stuff that may keep one awake for a space, yet will advantage all the sweeter slumber in the end.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
And yet while the curt, pithy speaker misses the point entirely, a wordy, prolegomenous babbler will often add three new offences in the process of excusing one.
Virginibus Puerisque Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
Its curse in common use is an incredible left-handed wordiness; but in the hands of a man like Pratt it is succinct as Latin, compact of long rolling polysyllables and little and often pithy particles, and for beauty of sound a dream.
Vailima Letters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
The rector’s letters, and those of his wife and mother-in-law, had all been tolerably short and pithy, written in a straight hand, with the lines very close together.
Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1995

Quotes with PITHY (3)

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy “one word” Zen. When asked “What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?” he replied: “An appropriate statement.” On another occasion, he answered: “Cake.” I admired his directness.
Stephen Batchelor Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people a melody of rudimentary experiences and respond to a stabilizing tune strung together with a shared ethos. We walk in parallel strides with our brethren seeking out equivalent affirmations of our being. We long to shout out to the world that we once walked this earth; we seek to leave in our wake traces of our pithy habitation. Our…
Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad Scrolls
This wobbly worldhost to insects and lintand a thousand pithy waysto feel unserious each minute It brings abouta great softening of the mind, likethe clouded edges of sea glass (thisfilter you could download and apply) A poultice or an opiate, rigidly individual. Aloneand erasing sentences to splinters.(Poem No. 5)
Erin J. Watson No Experiences: Poems
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 64 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).