English Explanatory Dictionary

laconically

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In a terse manner, given to using few words.

Word forms

laconically more laconically most laconically

Etymology

From laconic + -ally; from Laconia, the section of Ancient Greece that the Spartans came from; they were notoriously short of speech.

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