succinct

succinct
    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}]
    

Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, a. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to
   gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird.
   Cf. {Cincture}.]
   1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
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            His habit fit for speed succinct.     --Milton.
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   2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
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            Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
                                                  --Roscommon.
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            The shortest and most succinct model that ever
            grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind.
                                                  --South.
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   Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic;
        terse.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Suc*cinct"ly}, adv. --
        {Suc*cinct"ness}, n.
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53 Moby Thesaurus words for "succinct":
      Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aphoristic, aposiopestic,
      axiomatic, blunt, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact,
      compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp,
      curt, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic,
      epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, instantaneous,
      laconic, little, low, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial,
      pruned, pungent, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet,
      shortened, summary, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight,
      to the point, transient, truncated