Term | Definition |
Brevity | Briefness or conciseness in speech or writing |
Concise | Using few in speaking or writing |
Laconic | using few words in speech |
Pithy | brief and full of meaning and substance |
Quiescent | quiet,still;inactive |
Reticent | not talking much;reserved |
Succinct | clearly and briefly stated |
Taciturn | Silent;sparing of words;closed mouth |
Terse | using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise, sometimes to the point of rudeness |
Diffuse | Spread out, not concise; wordy |
Digress | to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about |
Verbose | using too many words; wordy; long winded |
Voluble | Talking a great deal with ease; glib |
Circumlocution | Speaking in circles; roundabout speech |
Colloquial | Pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
Loquacious | Very talkative; liking to talk |
Rhetorical | Relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression |
Bombastic | Using language in a pompous, showy way; speaking to impress others |
Eloquence | Artful ease with speaking; speech that can influence people's feelings |
Garrulous | talkative |
Grandiloquent | Using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
Prattle | To speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly |
Ramble | To talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction |
Rant | To Talk very loudly, even wildly; rave |
Arrogant | Overbearing; proud;haughty |
Braggart | One who boasts a great deal |
Complacent | Self-satisfied |
Contemptuous | Lacking respect; scornful |
Disdainful | Full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof |
Egotistical | Excessively self absorbed; very conceitied |
Haughty | Having great pride in oneself and dislike for others |
Insolent | Boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; rude |
Narcissistic | Having to do with extreme self-adoration and a feeling of superiority to everyone |
Ostentatious | Having to do with showing off; pretentious |
Presumptuous | Too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds |
Pretentious | Claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand |
Supercilious | Looking down on others; proud and scornful |
Swaager | To walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner |
Banal | Dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed |
Cliche | An idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse |
Derivative | Unoriginal; taken from something already existing |
Hackneyed | Made commonplace by overuse; trite |
Insipid | Lacking flavor or taste; unexciting |
Lackluster | Lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring |
Mundane | Commonplace, ordinary |
Pedestrian | Commonplace, ordinary, unoriginal, mundane |
Platitude | Quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original |
Prosaic | Dull, commonplace |
Trite | Unoriginal and stale due to overuse |
Vapid | Lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
Allay | To lesson fear;to calm; to relieve pain |
Alleviate | To lessen pain or tension |
Ameliorate | to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension |
appease | to make tranquil, especially by give into demands; pacify |
assuage | to alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify |
conciliate | to win a person over through special considerations or persuasive methods |
mediate | to act as a go-between in settling conflicts or disputes |
mitigate | to make or become less severe; to lesson pain or damage |
mollify | to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent |
pacify | to calm; to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state |
placate | to make calm; to soothe |
quell | to pacify; to subdue; to quiet down |