Concise

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing much in few words; clear and succinct.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. brief, yet including all important information
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Comprehending much in few words; brief and comprehensive in statement: as, a concise account of an event; a concise argument.
  • Synonyms Concise, Succinct, Condensed, Laconic, Summary, Compendious, short, terse, pithy, sententious, compact. The first four imply fullness of meaning as well as great brevity; the next two that the subject is treated by exhibiting only its main heads, and that therefore the treatment is comparatively brief. Concise frequently refers to style, and signifies the expression of much in few words; succinct is generally applied to the matter, the less important things being omitted: thus, a concise style or phrase, but a succinct narrative or account. Condensed relates more to the mode of treatment by which a matter is brought or compressed into a smaller space than it might have occupied. Laconic is applied to expressions which carry conciseness or brevity to an extreme. A summary account gives the principal points in the case; a compendious account is more sure than a summary account to give a complete and sufficient view of the subject.
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  • adj. expressing much in few words
  • Equivalent
    summary    crisp    sententious    epigrammatic    laconic    compendious    elliptical    apothegmatic    terse    compact   
    Antonym
    prolix    wordy    verbose    discursive   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    summary    short    laconic    succinct    compendious    brief    terse    condensed    pithy    compact   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brice    Bryce    Grice    Nice    Price    Rice    Weiss    advice    bice    device   
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