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short, pithy, laconic, taut, compact, brief, concise, pointed, neat, exact, trenchant, epigrammatic, cryptic, to the point, carefully edited, precise, abrupt, curt, clipped, brusque; see also abrupt 2, concise, short 2.

Antonyms verbose*, wordy, prolix. See syn. study at concise.concise.

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