TELEGRAPHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telegraphic mean? 

• TELEGRAPHIC (adjective)
  The adjective TELEGRAPHIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph

2. having the style of a telegram with many short words left out

  Familiarity information: TELEGRAPHIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEGRAPHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

telegraphic news reports

Pertainym:

telegraph (apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code))

Derivation:

telegraph (apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having the style of a telegram with many short words left out

Context example:

the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics

Similar:

concise (expressing much in few words)

 Context examples 

Was the telegraphic form one of these on the table?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)