What is laconic language?

Question

can you give an example
thanks

Answer 1

Laconic language is concise, terse, short on words, not forthcoming.

Q. What do you think of global warming? (asking for opinion; open-ended question)
A. Don't know (laconic)

Answer 2

In laconic language, very few words are used to say something, so that they seem casual. Some times they also seem unfriendly. e,g.
1. Usually so laconic in office,Dr.Smith seemed less guarded,more relaxed.
2.'At least we were not kidnapped-----I am glad of that,' was the laconic response.

Answer 3

using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/laconic

Synonyms brief, pithy, terse; succinct.
—Antonyms voluble.


Word History: The study of the classics allows one to understand the history of the term laconic, which comes to us via Latin from Greek Laknikos. The English word is first recorded in 1583 with the sense "of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants." Laknikos is derived from Lakn, "a Laconian, a person from Lacedaemon," the name for the region of Greece of which Sparta was the capital. The Spartans, noted for being warlike and disciplined, were also known for the brevity of their speech, and it is this quality that English writers still denote by the use of the adjective laconic, which is first found in this sense in 1589.

"a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"


"But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle" Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/laconic

Answer 4

Of few words, brief