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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, to the point |
| Synonyms: | cogent, compact, concise, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, expressive, honed, laconic, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant, succinct, terse, trenchant |
| Antonyms: | long-winded, verbose, wordy |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic, fleeting, in a nutshell, laconic, lessened, little, momentary, not protracted, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, shortened, succinct, summarized, summary, terse, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained |
| Antonyms: | large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | succinct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, to the point |
| Synonyms: | blunt, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, curt, cut to the bone, in a nutshell, in few words, laconic, pithy, short, summary, terse |
| Antonyms: | lengthy, long-winded, wordy |
| Main Entry: | terse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, short |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, condensed, crisp, cryptic, curt, cut to the bone, elliptical, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, incisive, laconic, lean, neat, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, succinct, summary, taut, to the point, trenchant |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
| Antonyms: | lengthy, long-winded, prolix, wordy |
| Main Entry: | thumbnail |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condensed |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, brief, compact, concise, contracted, curtailed, epigrammatic, short, short and sweet, succinct, summary, to the point, truncated |
| Main Entry: | condensed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shortened |
| Synonyms: | brief, concise, short, succinct |
| Main Entry: | short and sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to the point |
| Synonyms: | brief, compact, concise, condensed, in a nutshell, succinct, summary |
| Main Entry: | sententious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compact |
| Synonyms: | aphoristic, concise, pithy, pointed |
| Main Entry: | aphoristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pithy |
| Synonyms: | apothegmatic, compact, concise, crisp, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, sententious, succinct, to the point |
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