aphoristic (adj.)

• abbreviated
• abridged
• axiomatic
• brief
• brusque
• clipped
• close
• compact
• compendious
• compressed
• concise
• contracted
• crisp
• curt
• cut
• elliptic
• epigrammatic
• formulaic
• gnomic
• laconic
• pithy
• platitudinous
• pointed
• proverbial
• pungent
• reserved
• sententious
• short
• shortened
• succinct
• summary
• taciturn
• terse
• tight
• truncated