pithy

adjective3

1. •
   Concise and meaningful.

   • The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness." — 1873
2. •
   Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.

   • Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets? — 1863
3. •
   (Scotland, no longer used) Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial.

   • His bairns a’ before the flood / Had langer tack o’ flesh and blood, / And on mair pithy shanks they stood / Than Noah’s line, / Wha still hae been a feckless brood / Wi’ drinking wine. — 1773