Crisp and Pleonastic

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Crisp adjective - Marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning.

Usage example: a crisp suggestion about what they could do with their boom box

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Pleonastic is an antonym for crisp.

Nearby Words: crisped, crisply, crispy, crisping

Pleonastic adjective - Using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea.

Usage example: a writer whose penchant for pleonastic phrasings would suggest that he is in dire need of a hard-nosed editor

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Crisp is an antonym for pleonastic.

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Pleonastic and Crisp. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crisp/pleonastic

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