compendious
of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
Origin of compendious
1Other words for compendious
Other words from compendious
- com·pen·di·ous·ly, adverb
- com·pen·di·ous·ness, noun
- un·com·pen·di·ous, adjective
Words that may be confused with compendious
- compendious , voluminous
Words Nearby compendious
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How to use compendious in a sentence
David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath.
A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.
The Education of American Girls | Anna Callender BrackettTo other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject.
It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford | Edward BerensHe sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a “series.”
Nona Vincent | Henry James
But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle.
British Dictionary definitions for compendious
/ (kəmˈpɛndɪəs) /
containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
Derived forms of compendious
- compendiously, adverb
- compendiousness, noun
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