Pithy \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.]
   1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith;
      as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
      
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   2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.
      
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            This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.
                                                  --Dryden.
      
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            In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
                                                  --Addison.
      
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   {Pithy gall} (Zool.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall,
      formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
      ({Diastrophus nebulosus}).
      
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pithy
     adj : concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
           "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which
           Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {sententious}]
     adv : in a pithy sententious manner; "she expressed herself
           pithily" [syn: {sententiously}]
     [also: {pithiest}, {pithier}]

99 Moby Thesaurus words for "pithy":
   Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, allegorical, aphoristic,
   aposiopestic, associational, axiomatic, baccate, brief, brusque,
   clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise,
   condensed, connotational, connotative, contracted, crisp, curt,
   cut, definable, denotational, denotative, docked, doughy,
   edematous, effective, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressive, extended,
   extensional, figurative, flabby, fleshy, forceful, formulaic,
   formulistic, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance,
   gnomic, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interpretable,
   laconic, lean, macerated, masticated, meaning, meaningful, meaty,
   medullary, metaphorical, mushy, pasty, platitudinous, pointed,
   pregnant, proverbial, pruned, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike,
   pulpy, pungent, readable, referential, reserved, sententious,
   short, short and sweet, shortened, significant, significative,
   soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, substantial, succinct,
   succulent, suggestive, summary, symbolic, synopsized, taciturn,
   terse, tight, to the point, transferred, truncated