'Succinct' definitions:
Definition of 'succinct'
(from WordNet)
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, succinct, summary]
Definition of 'Succinct'
From: GCIDE
- Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, a. [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. [1913 Webster]
- His habit fit for speed succinct. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. [1913 Webster]
- Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. [1913 Webster] -- {Suc*cinct"ly}, adv. -- {Suc*cinct"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'succinct'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Spartan,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transient,
- truncated