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Compendious

Compendious Meaning & Definition
Compendious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Compendious?

[adj] briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Compendious: compact | concise | succinct | summary

Related Terms | Find terms related to Compendious: abbreviated | abridged | across-the-board | all-comprehensive | all-inclusive | aposiopestic | blanket | brief | brusque | clipped | close | compact | complete | comprehensive | compressed | concise | condensed | contracted | crisp | curt | curtal | curtate | cut | decurtate | docked | elliptic | encyclopedic | epigrammatic | global | gnomic | instantaneous | laconic | little | low | omnibus | over-all | panoramic | pithy | pointed | pruned | reserved | sententious | short | short and sweet | shortened | Spartan | succinct | summary | sweeping | synopsized | synoptic | taciturn | terse | tight | to the point | total | transient | truncated | universal | whole | without exception | without omission

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Compendious In Webster's Dictionary

\Com*pen"di*ous\, a. [L. compendiosus.] Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and expeditious ways. --Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. --Sir T. Elyot. Syn: Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise.

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