compendious
[kuhm-pen-dee-uhs]
adjective
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.
RELATED WORDS
brief, close, compact, comprehensive, concise, condensed, curt, inclusive, laconic, short, succinct, summary, abbreviated, breviloquent, contracted, synoptic
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Contemporary Examples of compendious
David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath.
Historical Examples of compendious
Let us diligently follow that, and be compendious with the remainder.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.)Thomas Carlyle
How does its beautiful simplicity also, and compendious brevity, give it rank before the laborious subtleties of Bellarmine!
Leibnitz gave a compendious statement of his system in his Monadology .
The Wonders of LifeErnst Haeckel
A native restaurant in its simplest and most compendious shape.
Java, Facts and FanciesAugusta de Wit
It will be sufficient to cite one notorious and compendious example.
What was the Gunpowder Plot?John Gerard
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