telegraphic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to, sent by, or using the telegraph

   The storm interrupted telegraphic communication with the coast.

2. 2
   adj

   very brief and compressed in style, like a telegram

   Her telegraphic notes omitted articles and most connecting words.

From telegraph + -ic. The literal sense arose with nineteenth-century electrical telegraphy; the style sense refers to the clipped wording used to reduce the length and cost of telegrams.

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