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What is the adjective for pithing?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pith which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pithy
  1. Concise and meaningful.
  2. Of, like, or abounding in pith.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. concise, succinct, brief, terse, laconic, crisp, compact, compendious, epigrammatic, summary, aphoristic, curt, thumbnail, short, condensed, apothegmatic, monosyllabic, elliptical, sententious, capsule, telegraphic, elliptic, incisive, pointed, witty, sharp, trenchant, expressive, meaningful, cogent, significant, effective, honed, to the point, short and sweet, finely honed, short-and-sweet, down to brass tacks, synoptic, breviloquent, compendiary, gnomic, compressed, abridged, abbreviated, clipped, sparing, boiled down, in a nutshell, lapidary … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Often a pithy saying or proverb has been written in the chosen script beside the alphabet.”
      “These pithy moments come too seldom to rescue the narrative from its own insubstantiality, though.”
      “She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.”
pithless
  1. Lacking strength or pith; weak.
  2. Not cogent.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. feeble, weak, cowardly, craven, gutless, wimpish, wimpy, yellow, chicken, effete, timid, timorous, frail, pusillanimous, weakling, fearful, characterless, weakened, nerveless, soft, recreant, unheroic, invertebrate, spiritless, dastardly, irresolute, poltroon, chickenhearted, submissive, pathetic, sissy, frightened, boneless, sissified, vacillating, unmanly, squeamish, forceless, feckless, emasculate, spineless, lily-livered, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, wishy-washy, milk-and-water, candy-assed, weak-willed, limp-wristed, yellow-bellied … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “For example, Ortanique's foie gras starter comes with three pithless orange slices which are dredged in turbinado sugar and then caramelized with a propane torch.”
      “Now I can cut them into beautiful pithless little segments, I can't get enough of having a grapefruit for my breakfast.”
      “During her last pregnancy in January 2007 she all of a sudden got ill, pithless, apathetic and refused to eat.”
pithlike
  1. Resembling pith or some aspect of it.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pithy, spongy
  3. Examples:
      4. “The dried fruit had a pithlike texture, similar to the fibrous inner layer of an orange.”
pithsome
  1. (archaic) pithy; robust
pithful
  1. Full of pith.
pithier
  1. comparative form of pithy: more pithy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. succincter, briefer, terser, crisper, curter, shorter, wittier, sharper, more concise, more laconic, more compact, more compendious, more summary, more condensed, more apothegmatic, more elliptical, more sententious, more telegraphic, more incisive, more pointed, more trenchant, more expressive, more meaningful, more cogent, more significant, more effective, more honed, more short and sweet, more synoptic, more breviloquent, more compressed, more gnomic, more abridged, more abbreviated, more sparing, snappier, more economical, tighter, brusquer, more economic, quicker, more contracted, neater, more truncated, tauter, more perfunctory, more rapid, blunter, tarter, more marrowy … more
pithiest
  1. superlative form of pithy: most pithy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. succinctest, briefest, tersest, crispest, curtest, shortest, wittiest, sharpest, most concise, most laconic, most compact, most compendious, most summary, most condensed, most apothegmatic, most elliptical, most sententious, most telegraphic, most incisive, most pointed, most trenchant, most expressive, most meaningful, most cogent, most significant, most effective, most honed, most short and sweet, most synoptic, most breviloquent, most compressed, most gnomic, most abridged, most abbreviated, most sparing, snappiest, most economical, tightest, brusquest, most economic, quickest, most contracted, neatest, most truncated, tautest, most perfunctory, most rapid, bluntest, tartest, most marrowy … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This poem is one of the pithiest condemnations of the English enclosure movement, the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property.”
      “Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party.”
      “It will see Russia as a country set apart from the rest of Europe by history and geography, but it will look to a Russian monarch, Catherine the Great, for the pithiest summary of Europe's place in the world.”
pithed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pith
pithing
  1. present participle of pith
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