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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | significant |
| Synonyms: | compact, epigrammatic, factual, full of content, interesting, meaningful, pithy, pointed, profound, rich, substantial, weighty |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, thin |
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| Main Entry: | concise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short, to the point |
| Synonyms: | abridged, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compact, compendiary, compendious, compressed, condensed, curt, epigrammatic, in a nutshell, laconic, lean, marrowy, meaty, pithy, short and sweet, succinct, summary, synoptic, terse |
| Notes: | use terse to characterize brevity or succinctness of expression in a person; concise is used to characterize this in a message |
| Antonyms: | expansive, lengthy, long, long-winded, redundant, repetitive, wordy |
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | beefy, big, blimp, bovine, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, bull, burly, butterball, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, husky, inflated, jelly-belly, lard, large, meaty, obese, oversize, paunchy, plump, plumpish, ponderous, porcine, portly, potbellied, pudgy, roly-poly, rotund, solid, stout, swollen, thickset, weighty, whalelike |
| Antonyms: | skinny, slender, slight, slim, thin |
| Main Entry: | fleshy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | adipose, ample, beefy, brawny, chubby, chunky, corpulent, fat, gross, heavy, hefty, husky, meaty, obese, plump, porcine, portly, pudgy, pulpy, sarcous, stout, tubby, weighty, well-padded, zaftig |
| Antonyms: | skinny, thin, underweight |
| Main Entry: | pithy |
| 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: | pointed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penetrating, biting |
| Synonyms: | accurate, acid, acute, barbed, boiled down, calling a spade a spade, cutting, in a nutshell, incisive, insinuating, keen, laid on the line, legit, meaty, on the button, on the nose, pertinent, pregnant, right to it, right-on, sarcastic, sharp, short-and-sweet, tart, telling, trenchant |
| Antonyms: | calming, mild, nice, soothing |
| Main Entry: | marrowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pithy |
| Synonyms: | aphoristic, cogent, compact, concise, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, expressive, honed, laconic, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant, succinct, terse, to the point, trenchant |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Compact. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation; pact, paction; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast, deal., stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel., protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein, Sonderbund, charter, Magna Charta, Progmatic Sanction., negotiation (bargaining); diplomacy (mediation); negotiator (agent)., ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet.
-verbs
contract, covenant, agree for; engage (promise)., treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain (barter)., make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an understanding; compromise; set at rest; close, close with; conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite; endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal (attest); indent., take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.
-adjectives
agreed; conventional; under hand and seal.
-phrases
caveat emptor.
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