compendious

compendious
    adj 1: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and
           compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy";
           "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-
           ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {compact},
           {succinct}, {summary}]
    

Compendious \Com*pen"di*ous\, a. [L. compendiosus.]
   Containing the substance or general principles of a subject
   or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
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         More compendious and expeditious ways.   --Woodward.
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         Three things be required in the oration of a man having
         authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and
         delectable.                              --Sir T.
                                                  Elyot.

   Syn: Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive;
        succinct; brief; concise.
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62 Moby Thesaurus words for "compendious":
      Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, across-the-board,
      all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, aposiopestic, blanket, brief,
      brusque, clipped, close, compact, complete, comprehensive,
      compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, curtal,
      curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic, encyclopedic,
      epigrammatic, global, gnomic, instantaneous, laconic, little, low,
      omnibus, over-all, panoramic, pithy, pointed, pruned, reserved,
      sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct, summary,
      sweeping, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight,
      to the point, total, transient, truncated, universal, whole,
      without exception, without omission