About The Word Compendious
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Compendious
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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 See Also | 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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