English > concise: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Expressing much in few words. |
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| Example | "a concise explanation" |
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| Attribute of | prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness, wordiness | boring verbosity |
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| Narrower | aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic | terse and witty and like a maxim |
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| brief | concise and succinct |
| compendious, compact, succinct, summary | briefly giving the gist of something |
| crisp, curt, laconic, terse | brief and to the point |
| cryptic | Having a puzzling terseness |
| elliptic, elliptical | Characterized by extreme / extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements |
| pithy, sententious | concise and full of meaning / meaning |
| telegraphic | Having the style of a telegram with many short words left out |
| See also | taciturn | Habitually reserved and uncommunicative |
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| Opposite | prolix | tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length |
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| Spanish | concisa, conciso, lacónico, preciso, sucinto |
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| Catalan | concís, precís |
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| Nouns | conciseness | terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words |
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| Adverbs | concisely | in a concise manner |
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