concise
Other forms: concisest
If something is concise, it's short and gets right to the point. A concise edition of your diary might be 50 pages of the most important entries.
Concise comes from the Latin word concidere, which means "to cut down." When we use concise, we're talking about words that have been cut down. There are no concise trees, but there are concise works of political philosophy. A concise Italian-English dictionary, is shorter than an unabridged one. If you're good at quick explanations, you have a concise manner. A good synonym is succinct.
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expressing much in few words“a concise explanation”synonyms: breviloquentbriefconcise and succinctcryptichaving a puzzling tersenesselliptic, ellipticalcharacterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elementstelegraphichaving the style of a telegram with many short words left outtaciturnhabitually reserved and uncommunicative
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