down to brass tacks

aphoristic cogent compact concise crisp curt effective epigrammatic epigrammatical expressive honed laconic meaningful meaty pointed short short-and-sweet significant succinct terse to the point trenchant

cogent concise laconic succinct terse trenchant

compact crisp curt effective epigrammatic expressive honed meaningful meaty pointed short short-and-sweet significant

impotent lengthy long-winded weak wordy

verbose