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What is the adjective for pith?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pith which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pithy
  1. Concise and meaningful.
  2. Of, like, or abounding in pith.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Often a pithy saying or proverb has been written in the chosen script beside the alphabet.”
      “These pithy moments come too seldom to rescue the narrative from its own insubstantiality, though.”
      “She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.”
pithless
  1. Lacking strength or pith; weak.
  2. Not cogent.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “For example, Ortanique's foie gras starter comes with three pithless orange slices which are dredged in turbinado sugar and then caramelized with a propane torch.”
      “Now I can cut them into beautiful pithless little segments, I can't get enough of having a grapefruit for my breakfast.”
      “During her last pregnancy in January 2007 she all of a sudden got ill, pithless, apathetic and refused to eat.”
pithlike
  1. Resembling pith or some aspect of it.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The dried fruit had a pithlike texture, similar to the fibrous inner layer of an orange.”
pithsome
  1. (archaic) pithy; robust
pithful
  1. Full of pith.
pithier
pithiest
  1. superlative form of pithy: most pithy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This poem is one of the pithiest condemnations of the English enclosure movement, the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property.”
      “Perhaps it was apt that the pithiest election-night verdict was delivered by a Danish politician, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, leader of that country's Social Democratic party.”
      “It will see Russia as a country set apart from the rest of Europe by history and geography, but it will look to a Russian monarch, Catherine the Great, for the pithiest summary of Europe's place in the world.”
pithed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pith
pithing
  1. present participle of pith
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