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Another word for concise

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Adjective

  1. Marked by or consisting of few words that are carefully chosen

    See also:

    words

    style

    big

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Another word for concise

Modifier
  1. See also:

    terse

    short

Synonym Study

  • Pithy suggests forcefulness and wit resulting from compactness pithy axioms
  • Succinct implies clarity but compactness in the fewest words possible she spoke in succinct phrases
  • Laconic suggests brevity to the point of curtness, ambiguity, or uncommunicativeness ``You'll see,"" was his laconic reply
  • Terse may add to this the connotation of polished smoothness and cogency a terse style or of clipped and abrupt expression a terse command
  • Concise implies the stating of much in few words, by removing all superfluous or expanded details a concise summary
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Sentence Examples

  • His arguments were concise, simple, and clear.

  • His style is elevated and concise, but somewhat difficult.

  • While Schiller's standpoint was too essentially that of his time to lay claim to finality, it is, on the whole, the most concise statement we possess of the literary theory which lay behind the classical literature of Germany.

  • Siebeck would reduce it within very small dimensions, but this is not borne out by the concise history found at Herculaneum (Index herc., ed.

  • A concise account of the various Latin writers and their works, together with bibliographies, is given in J.

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