"The game's afoot" is Holmes's laconic call to action.
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Laconic
//ləˈkɒnɪk//
Synonyms for "laconic" (78 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
Related word relations
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Translations
52 translations across 36 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- وجيز adj (using as few words as possible)
Belarusian
1 entries- лаканічны adj (using as few words as possible)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лаконичен adj (using as few words as possible)
Catalan
1 entries- lacònic adj (using as few words as possible)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 簡潔 /简洁 adj (using as few words as possible)
Czech
1 entries- lakonický adj (using as few words as possible)
Danish
2 entries- kortfattet adj (using as few words as possible)
- lakonisk adj (using as few words as possible)
Dutch
1 entries- laconiek adj (using as few words as possible)
Estonian
1 entries- lakooniline adj (using as few words as possible)
Finnish
3 entries- lakoninen adj (using as few words as possible)
- lyhytsanainen adj (using as few words as possible)
- niukkasanainen adj (using as few words as possible)
French
1 entries- laconique adj (using as few words as possible)
German
2 entries- lakonisch adj (using as few words as possible)
- wortkarg adj (using as few words as possible)
Greek
1 entries- λακωνικός adj (using as few words as possible)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- lakonik adj (using as few words as possible)
Hebrew
1 entries- לקוני adj (using as few words as possible)
Hungarian
3 entries- lakonikus adj (using as few words as possible)
- szófukar adj (using as few words as possible)
- szűkszavú adj (using as few words as possible)
Irish
1 entries- gearr-abartha adj (using as few words as possible)
Italian
1 entries- laconico adj (using as few words as possible)
Japanese
1 entries- 簡潔 adj (using as few words as possible)
Macedonian
1 entries- ла́конски adj (using as few words as possible)
Malay
1 entries- ringkas adj (using as few words as possible)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lakonisk adj (using as few words as possible)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- lakonisk adj (using as few words as possible)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- وجیز adj (using as few words as possible)
Polish
1 entries- lakoniczny adj (using as few words as possible)
Portuguese
2 entries- lacónico adj (using as few words as possible)
- lacônico adj (using as few words as possible)
Romanian
1 entries- laconic adj (using as few words as possible)
Russian
2 entries- лакони́чный adj (using as few words as possible)
- немногосло́вный adj (using as few words as possible)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lakòničan adj (using as few words as possible)
- làkōnskī adj (using as few words as possible)
Spanish
1 entries- lacónico adj (using as few words as possible)
Swedish
1 entries- lakonisk adj (using as few words as possible)
Thai
4 entries- กระชับ adj (using as few words as possible)
- กะทัดรัด adj (using as few words as possible)
- รวบรัด adj (using as few words as possible)
- สั้น adj (using as few words as possible)
Tibetan
3 entries- ཁ་ཉུང adj (using as few words as possible)
- ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ adj (using as few words as possible)
- ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང adj (using as few words as possible)
Turkish
1 entries- veciz adj (using as few words as possible)
Ukrainian
1 entries- лаконічний adj (using as few words as possible)
Welsh
2 entries- byreiriog adj (using as few words as possible)
- laconig adj (using as few words as possible)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The economist is not laconic.
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Tom has a laconic sense of humour.
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His answer was laconic.
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