Usually means: Concise, clipped communication style, abbreviated.
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  1. telegraphic: Merriam-Webster
  2. telegraphic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telegraphic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telegraphic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telegraphic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Telegraphic, telegraphic: Wordnik
  7. telegraphic: Wiktionary
  8. telegraphic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. telegraphic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. telegraphic: Dictionary.com
  11. Telegraphic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Telegraphic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. telegraphic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. telegraphic: Rhymezone
  15. Telegraphic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. telegraphic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. telegraphic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. telegraphic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. telegraphic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. telegraphic: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Of, or relating to the telegraph.
▸ adjective:  Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.

Similar:
concise, telegraphical, electrotelegraphic, telecommunicational, autotelegraphic, radiotelegraphic, telephonographic, telecommunicative, phototelegraphic, telephonic, more...

Opposite:
verbose, wordy, long-winded, prolix

Types:
laconic, succinct, terse, pithy, brief, compressed, concise, more...

Phrases:
telegraphic speech, telegraphic address, Telegraphic transfer, telegraphic signal, electro telegraphic, more...

Adjectives:
local, postal, more, direct, wireless, less, reciprocal, despotic, actual, constant, only

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Similar:
concise, telegraphical, electrotelegraphic, telecommunicational, autotelegraphic, radiotelegraphic, telephonographic, telecommunicative, phototelegraphic, telephonic, more...

Opposite:
verbose, wordy, long-winded, prolix

Types:
laconic, succinct, terse, pithy, brief, compressed, concise, more...

Phrases:
telegraphic speech, telegraphic address, Telegraphic transfer, telegraphic signal, electro telegraphic, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a telegraphic dispatch, more...

Adjectives:
local, postal, more, direct, wireless, less, reciprocal, despotic, actual, constant, only

Colors:
    gray,     black,     white,     silver,     charcoal, more...



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