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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concise \Con*cise"\, adjective [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, verb (used with an object); 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. --B. Jonson.
Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. --I. Watts.
Syn: Laconic; terse; brief; short; compendious; summary; succinct. See {Laconic}, and {Terse}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
concise
adjective: expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation" [ant: {prolix}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "concise": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brusque, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, cogent, compact, compendious, compressed, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, curtailed, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, direct, docked, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, instantaneous, laconic, little, low, mum, mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, transient, trenchant, truncated, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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