Meaning and example
concise and full of meaning
Welcomed her pithy comments
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.214 places pithy in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 89.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
No indexed related-word pages are available for this entry yet.
Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 89.3%
something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
- Known by
- 89%
fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Known by
- 89.3%
mutual accusations
- Known by
- 88.9%
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- Known by
- 89.4%
sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.