concise

English

Etymology

From Late Latin concisus ‎(“cut short”), from Latin concidere ‎(“cut to pieces”), from caedere ‎(“to cut, to strike down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsaɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

Adjective

concise ‎(comparative more concise, superlative most concise)

1. brief, yet including all important information

Synonyms

• succinct
• See also Wikisaurus:concise

Antonyms

• verbose

Derived terms

• concisely
• concision
• conciseness

Translations

brief and precise

• Afrikaans: beknopt
• Arabic: وَجِيز ‎(wajīz)
• Bulgarian: кратък (bg) ‎(kratǎk), стегнат (bg) ‎(stegnat)
• Catalan: concís
• Czech: stručný m
• Danish: koncis
• Dutch: beknopt (nl) f, bondig (nl)
• Esperanto: konciza
• Finnish: ytimekäs (fi), lyhytsanainen
• French: concis (fr)
• Georgian: მოკლე ‎(moḳle), შემოკლებული ‎(šemoḳlebuli)
• German: kurz (de), prägnant (de), knapp (de), konzis (de), bündig (de), gedrängt (de) (figurative)

• Hebrew: תמציתי m ‎(tamtzity), תמציתית f ‎(tamtzityt)
• Irish: achomair
• Italian: conciso (it)
• Norwegian: konsis
• Persian: مختصر (fa) ‎(mokhtasar)
• Polish: zwięzły (pl) m, lakoniczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: conciso (pt), sucinto (pt)
• Russian: лаконичный (ru) m ‎(lakoničnyj), краткий (ru) m ‎(kratkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: pongail
• Spanish: conciso (es), breve (es), sucinto (es)
• Swedish: koncis (sv), kortfattad (sv)
• Turkish: mucez (obsolescent), özlü (tr)

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Italian

Adjective

concise

1. feminine plural of conciso

Anagrams

• conscie
• scenico
• sconcie

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Latin

Participle

concīse

1. vocative masculine singular of concīsus

References

• concise in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• concise in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.