laconic
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister
General adjective
Using very few words; concise to the point of seeming terse.
Her laconic “fine” told us everything was not, in fact, fine.
Medicine adjective
Using very few words, especially in a way that seems unemotional or detached.
The laconic teenager offered only 'fine' when asked how the pain had been.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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