concinnous

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English

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Etymology

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Latin concinnus.

Adjective

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concinnous (comparative more concinnous, superlative most concinnous)

  1. Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant.
    • 1831, Thomas De Quincey, Dr. Parr and his Contemporaries:
      that most concinnous and most rotund of professors

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for concinnous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)