Synonyms for concise
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Succinct — brief, yet including all important information
succinct, brief, pithy, terse, laconic, summary, short, crisp, curt, compact, condensed, aphoristic, sententious, pointed, taut, tight, compendious, epigrammatic
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Brief, yet including all important information.
Related words
- Word family
- concisely conciseness concision
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Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- brief It was a long letter, but in brief, he said, "No."
- succinct The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.
- terse He was always terse on the telephone.
- pithy He couldn't come up with a pithy barb on the spot.
By length
- 4 letters
- curt1, taut1
- 5 letters
- short1, tight1, brief1, crisp1, terse1, pithy2
- 7 letters
- pointed2, summary3, compact2, laconic3
- 8 letters
- succinct2, elliptic
- 9 letters
- condensed2
- 10 letters
- elliptical4, aphoristic
- 11 letters
- compendious, sententious
- 12 letters
- epigrammatic5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pithy2 = 2 syllables).