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Epigrammatic Definition & Meaning

epigrammatic
adjective
  1. terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

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What does epigrammatic mean?
terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"
What part of speech is epigrammatic?
Epigrammatic is an adjective.

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