concise

English

Etymology

From Late Latin concisus (“cut short”), from 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
2. (obsolete) physically short or truncated
   • 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South (page 56)

     This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.

Synonyms

• succinct
• terse
• See also Thesaurus:concise

Antonyms

• verbose

Derived terms

• concisely
• concision
• conciseness

Translations

brief and precise

• Afrikaans: beknopt
• Arabic: وَجِيز‎ (wajīz)
• Armenian: սեղմ (hy) (sełm)
• Belarusian: каро́ткі (be) (karótki), сці́слы (scísly), лакані́чны (lakaníčny)
• Bulgarian: кра́тък (bg) (krátǎk), сте́гнат (bg) (stégnat)
• Catalan: concís
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 簡明 (zh), 简明 (zh) (jiǎnmíng)

• Czech: stručný (cs)
• Danish: koncis
• Dutch: beknopt (nl), 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)
• Greek: σύντομος (el) (sýntomos), περιεκτικός (el) (periektikós), συνοπτικός (el) (synoptikós), λακωνικός (el) (lakonikós)
• Hebrew: תמציתי‎ (tamtzity)

• Hindi: संक्षिप्त (hi) (saṅkṣipt)
• Hungarian: tömör (hu), velős (hu)
• Irish: achomair
• Italian: conciso (it)
• Japanese: 簡潔な (ja) (kanketsu na), 手短な (ja) (temijika na)
• Latin: succinctus, astrictus
• Mongolian: авсар (avsar)
• Norwegian: konsis
• Persian: مختصر‎ (fa) (moxtasar)
• Polish: zwięzły (pl), lakoniczny (pl)
• Portuguese: conciso (pt), sucinto (pt)
• Russian: кра́ткий (ru) (krátkij), лакони́чный (ru) (lakoníčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: pongail
• Spanish: conciso (es), breve (es), sucinto (es), escueto (es)
• Swedish: koncis (sv), kortfattad (sv)
• Thai: กระชับ (th)
• Turkish: mucez (obsolescent), özlü (tr)
• Ukrainian: коро́ткий (korótkyj), сти́слий (stýslyj), лаконі́чний (lakoníčnyj)

Verb

concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)

1. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

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French

Adjective

concise

1. feminine singular of concis

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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 and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• concise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Anagrams

• Cicones