epigrammatic [
,epigrә'mætik]
a. 警句的, 讽刺的
- No painter had ever made the point that' A painting is not what it represents' with such epigrammatic clarity before.
此前从未有过一位画家如此精辟透彻地阐述了‘非所画’的观点。
epigrammatic[ adj ]
terse and witty and like a maxim
<adj.all>
much given to apothegmatic instruction
Epigrammatic \Ep`i*gram*mat"ic\, Epigrammatical
\Ep`i*gram*mat"ic*al\, [L. epigrammaticus: cf. F.
['e]pigrammatique.]
1. Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an
epigrammatical poet.
2. Suitable to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an
epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or
sallies of fancy.
- Sometimes these are conveyed in epigrammatic flashes: "As a language snob, I judge a person less by the cut of his jib than by the grab of his gab."