concise
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin concisus (“cut short”), from concidere (“cut to pieces”), from caedere (“to cut, to strike down”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
- brief, yet including all important information
Synonyms
- succinct
- terse
- See also Thesaurus:concise
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
brief and precise
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Verb
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- (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
Italian
Adjective
concise
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) concīse
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.
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