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succinct

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective succinct has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

succincta. [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture.].
  •  Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.  [1913 Webster]
    "His habit fit for speed succinct."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.  [1913 Webster]
    "Let all your precepts be succinct and clear."  [1913 Webster]
    "The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

succinct, adj. briefly expressed; terse, concise.

Derivative
succinctly adv. succinctness n.
Etymology
ME f. L succinctus past part. of succingere tuck up (as SUB-, cingere gird)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

succinct

Conciseness

N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.

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