telegraphic

English

Etymology

From telegraph +‎ -ic.

Adjective

telegraphic (comparative more telegraphic, superlative most telegraphic)

1. Of, or relating to the telegraph.
   • 1965, Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God, Penguin Classics (2010), page 182:

     It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.

2. Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.

Derived terms

• telegraphically

Translations

of, or relating to the telegraph

• Arabic: بَرْقِيّ (barqiyy)
• Armenian: հեռագրական (hy) (heṙagrakan), հեռագրային (hy) (heṙagrayin)
• Catalan: telegràfic
• Czech: telegrafní
• French: télégraphique (fr)
• Galician: telegráfico
• German: telegraphisch (de), telegrafisch (de)
• Italian: telegrafico (it)
• Polish: telegraficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: telegráfico
• Russian: телегра́фный (ru) (telegráfnyj)
• Spanish: telegráfico (es)
• Ukrainian: телегра́фний (telehráfnyj)

brief or concise, resembling a telegram

• Catalan: telegràfic
• Galician: telegráfico
• German: im Telegrammstil
• Polish: telegraficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: telegráfico
• Spanish: telegráfico (es)