telegraphic

CEFRB2

/ˈtɛləˌɡraef/

adjective

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01
adjective
Using very few words, like a telegram.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The clerk made a quick and telegraphic report of the events.
It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.
Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style. “Weeds grow like house afire. Can’t keep even with ’em. Shall press you in. Better be careful.”

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It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.
1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 182
Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style. “Weeds grow like house afire. Can’t keep even with ’em. Shall press you in. Better be careful.”
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8
This section is based on […] I am presenting the facts in a telegraphic fashion; for the sources, discussion and disagreements see the five scholars I listed.
2021, David Golinkin, “What is the Origin and History of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Anat Helman, editor, No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood

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From telegraph + -ic.