missives
Formal written communications
Missives are letters or written messages, especially formal or official ones.
The word carries a slightly literary or old-fashioned flavor, often used with mild irony for ordinary correspondence: I spent the morning answering missives from disgruntled customers.
A single letter is a missive.
Alphabetic characters or mail
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- communicationsExchange of information
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
- messagesSent pieces of communication
notes · memoranda · writings · posts · mail · communiqués · bulletins · reports
Official urgent messages
- communiquésFormal official announcements
- cablesHeavy ropes or wires
- telegramsWired text messages
- diplomatic pouchesProtected official correspondence carriers
ambassadorial · envoy · foreign office · state department · embassy · consulate · demarche · protocol
Pertaining to letter-writing
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- love lettersRomantic written messages
- pennedWrote or confined
- quillFeather used for writing
inkwell · parchment · sealed · wax seal · salutation · valediction · postscript · prose
Rolled written records
- proclamationsFormal public announcements
- edictsAuthoritative public commands
- decreesOfficial orders with force
- heraldsMessengers who announce
couriers · messengers · signet · court · monarch · scribes · calligraphy · vellum
letters
Alphabetic characters or mail
- dispatchesOfficial urgent messages
- communicationsExchange of information
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
messages · notes · memoranda · writings · posts · mail · communiqués · bulletins · reports · notifications
dispatches
Official urgent messages
- communiquésFormal official announcements
- cablesHeavy ropes or wires
- telegramsWired text messages
diplomatic pouches · ambassadorial · envoy · foreign office · state department · embassy · consulate · demarche · protocol · summit
epistolary
Pertaining to letter-writing
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- love lettersRomantic written messages
- pennedWrote or confined
quill · inkwell · parchment · sealed · wax seal · salutation · valediction · postscript · prose · eloquent
scrolls
Rolled written records
- proclamationsFormal public announcements
- edictsAuthoritative public commands
- decreesOfficial orders with force
heralds · couriers · messengers · signet · court · monarch · scribes · calligraphy · vellum · writ
- correspondenceletters, letter, handwritten letters, family letters, thank you letters
- dispatchesdispatches, military dispatches, cables, diplomatic cables, embassy cables
- Letter Writingletters, correspondence, letter writing, epistolary, love letters
- Napoleon correspondenceletters, dispatches, personal letters, military orders, family letters
- Scots Lawpursuer, defender, advocates, advocate, solicitors
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
missivestexts
Digital short messages
text messages · instant messages · tweets · jottings · postcards
missivesone-liners
Brief comedic remarks
snippets · blurbs · sound bites · telegrams · abbreviations
submissive, dismissive, missive, dismissively, dismissiveness