concise

Brief, yet including all important information.

Adjective

  1. Brief, yet including all important information.

    Synonyms: succinct terse

    Antonyms: verbose

  2. Physically short or truncated.
    • This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese...

Origin

From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

Forms

more concise most concise

Synonyms

brief concise crisp laconic lapidary short-winded succinct tight to the point taut terse

Antonyms

verbose

Related

taciturn succinctness

Derived

concisely conciseness concision unconcise

Verb

  1. To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

Forms

concises concising concised