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laconically en · ADV

Etymology

From laconic + -ally; from Laconia, the section of Ancient Greece that the Spartans came from; they were notoriously short of speech.

Meanings

1. In a terse manner, given to using few words.
   • The "King" responded well to this treatment and would have maintained 60 m.p.h. up the steepest part had it not been for a brief bout of slipping, which was quickly corrected by Driver Bailes ("Autumn leaves", he remarked laconically). 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 105:
   • An officer makes his way through the maelstrom to report a serious fire in one of the turrets. Rozhestvensky laconically orders him to try and put it out, as there isn't much he can do from inside the conning tower. 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 21:07 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:

Forms

Translations (15)

it laconicamente (in a terse manner) · ka ლაკონიურად (in a terse manner) · nl laconiek (in a terse manner) · gl laconicamente (in a terse manner) · uk лаконі́чно (in a terse manner) · es lacónicamente (in a terse manner) · fr laconiquement (in a terse manner) · fi lakonisesti (in a terse manner) · hu lakonikusan (in a terse manner) · be лакані́чна (in a terse manner) · ru лакони́чно (in a terse manner) · ca lacònicament (in a terse manner) · mk ла́конски (in a terse manner) · ru лакони́чески (in a terse manner) · pl lakonicznie (in a terse manner)