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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, adjective [L. succinctus, p. p. of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub + cingere to gird. Cf. {Cincture}.]
1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
His habit fit for speed succinct. --Milton.
2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. --Roscommon.
The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. --South.
Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. -- {Suc*cinct"ly}, adverb -- {Suc*cinct"ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
succinct
adjective: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject" [syn: {compendious}, {compact}, {summary}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "succinct": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aphoristic, aposiopestic, axiomatic, blunt, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, instantaneous, laconic, little, low, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, proverbial, pruned, pungent, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, summary, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, transient, truncated
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