资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

   2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.

            This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.
                                                  --Dryden.

            In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.
                                                  --Addison.

   {Pithy gall} (Zo["o]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong
      gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly
      ({Diastrophus nebulosus}).

资料来源 : WordNet®

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}]

pithier
     See {pithy}