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Epigrams

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Epigrams"

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Word	Definition
quipnoun	A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe.
epigrammatic	having the characteristics of an epigram
epigrammatical	Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed.
epigrammatically	In a manner suggestive of an epigram.
epigraphsnoun	A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
aphorismsnoun	an EP by post-rock band Red Sparowes, released on Amazon.com as a digital download on July 9, 2008.
epigraphnoun	A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
epigraphicalnoun	epigraphic
aphorismnoun	A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
epigraphynoun	The study or decipherment of inscriptions, especially of ancient ones.
epithetsnoun	A term used to characterize a person or thing.
proverbsnoun	A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
maximsnoun	A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.
epigraphicnoun	Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
aphoristic	Of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
quotesnoun	Quotation marks.
epideicticnoun	Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
eponymsnoun	A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
apothegmnoun	A short, witty, instructive saying; an aphorism or maxim.
adagesnoun	An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.