concise

[con·cise]

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.

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Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

Adjective
expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"


a.
Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.


Concise

Con*cise" , a. [L. concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v.t.; cf. F. concis.] Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.
The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood.
Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little.
Syn. -- Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See Laconic, and Terse.

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

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