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breviloquent

American  
[bre-vil-uh-kwuhnt] / brɛˈvɪl ə kwənt /

adjective

  1. speaking or expressed in a concise or terse style; using brevity of speech.

    In the memorial to her family, references to her brother were tellingly breviloquent.

Other Word Forms

  • breviloquence noun
  • breviloquently adverb

Etymology

Origin of breviloquent

First recorded in 1895–1900; brevi- ( def. ) + Latin loquent-, stem of loquēns, present participle of loquī “to speak”

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For the better part of 30 years, men’s shorts have been inching away from their own breviloquent description.

From New York Times

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