Strunkian

English

Etymology

From Strunk +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Strunkian (comparative more Strunkian, superlative most Strunkian)

1. Of or relating to William Strunk, Jr. or his Elements of Style (1920), a famous prescriptive writing-style guide.
   • 2020, Victoria Rosner, Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life, page 62:

     However, the above passage could have been written more efficiently — if Strunkian concision, using the fewest words possible, is understood as the measure of verbal efficiency.