Concise
[kən'saɪs]
Definition
(a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Brief, short, laconic, summary, compendious, succinct, terse, pithy, sententious, comprehensive, CURT, pointed, not loose, not verbose, not prolix.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Condensed, terse, pregnant, expressive, pointed, neat, compendious, succinct,summary, brief, short
ANT:Diffuse, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory, rambling, discursive
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Definition
adj. cut short: brief.—v.t. (Milt.) to mutilate.—adv. Concise′ly.—ns. Concise′ness the quality of being concise: terseness
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Examples
- I WILL be more collectedmore concise. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- As the hypothesis concerning hope and fear carries its own evidence along with it, we shall be the more concise in our proofs. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But if he wrote to his father, no wonder he was concise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It was short and concise: The old man is dead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Smallweed bears the concise testimony, A few! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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