concise
Brief, yet including all important information.
Adjective
- Brief, yet including all important information.
Antonyms: verbose
- 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
Synonyms
brief concise crisp laconic lapidary short-winded succinct tight to the point taut terse
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Verb
- To make concise; to abridge or summarize.