1 (especially grammar) with a word or words left out of a sentence deliberately:
an elliptical remark (= one that suggests more than is actually said)
2 (also less frequent elliptic ) (geometry) connected with or in the form of an ELLIPSE
elliptically adverb:
to speak / write elliptically
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