Succinct

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  succinct
       adj : 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},
              {summary}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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