Of language or style: full of concentrated meaning; conveying meaning forcibly through brevity of expression; concise, succinct; condensed in…

Full of pith, pithy; substantial, important; succinct.

figurative in various applications. Full of ‘goodness’ or substance.

Of a writing style: compact, terse. Obsolete. rare.

transferred and figurative. Of language or style: Condensed, terse, pithy, close; not diffuse. Also said of the writer.

Having the atoms or component parts very near together. figurative. Of literary style: Condensed, pithy (obsolete). Of reasoning: Opposed to…

spec. Freed from verbal redundancy; neatly concise; compact and pithy in style or language. (The current use.)