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Definition of compendious in English: compendiousadjective kəmˈpɛndɪəskəmˈpɛndiəs formal Containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way. Example sentencesExamples - Long before Shakespeare's death the playwrights had lost confidence in their power to offer a conspectus or compendious view.
- In An American Dilemma, a compendious study of American racism, another foreign observer, Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, recognized the self-correcting nature of what he too called the American Creed.
- Failure to listen ranks high in the compendious catalogue of couple complaints.
- Given the compendious nature of Wood's works, this is hardly surprising, of course.
- Yet, on occasion, one cannot help but admire his eager intelligence and compendious grasp of the field.
- With so many decontextualized styles waiting at every exit, his compendious description of the American highway landscape compresses a hemisphereful of designs into a single journey.
- Now, another problem with that paragraph is that it seeks to deal in a compendious manner with disparate kinds of corroborative evidence.
- It is authoritative, compendious and highly readable.
- Folklore and legends were retold by the bards, who used devices such as alliteration and rhyme, as well as a compendious store of stock phrases, to aid memorisation and recall, allowing them to instantly ‘compose’ a poem for any occasion.
- Our learned friends seek to restrict the word ‘obvious’ to the most narrow meaning possible - that is not the way it has been dealt with - and our friends ignore the fact that it is a compendious concept.
- Apparently the compendious works on Chicago history by John Kirkland had not been consulted.
- Her writing is elegant, the record compendious.
- The second limb is concerned with what, for want of a better compendious description, can be called the liability of an accessory to a trustee's breach of trust.
- As a bonus question - why has the story vanished from the Guardian's compendious website?
- Housing land supply was exhaustively examined by the local plan inquiry Inspector, who had compendious, borough-wide evidence before him, including information on all potential housing sites.
- His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
- This book details the social lives of children and includes compendious and informative summaries of attachment theory, friendship formation, group power and function, gender issues, and child psychology.
- Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation.
- His book is compendious in its scope, taking in three decades of street life in Los Angeles, a century of the city's police force, and a dramatis personae that runs to five and a half pages.
- This is a massive, compendious and copiously researched book that tells the whole of what used to be called ‘our island story’.
Synonyms succinct, pithy, short and to the point, short and sweet, potted, thumbnail, brief, crisp, compact, concise, condensed, shortened, contracted, compressed, abridged, abbreviated, summarized, summary, abstracted in a nutshell, in a few well-chosen words informal snappy rare lapidary, epigrammatic, synoptic, aphoristic, gnomic
Derivatives adverb formal For convenience, I shall refer to these dates compendiously as the ‘date of loss’, although I recognise that the term is not altogether appropriate in a case of restitution… Example sentencesExamples - In short the claim was more extensive than the invention and was, as it is compendiously expressed, too wide and therefore invalid.
- They are identified compendiously as the first appellant and he is identified as the second appellant.
- It compendiously describes some of the evidence and some of the background.
- While the appellants' experience will in that event have been insupportably painful they will have endured the consequence of adjudication through due processes in accordance with what is compendiously termed the rule of law.
noun formal I have been very impressed by the compendiousness of some of the speeches from Government Members in particular. Example sentencesExamples - It is a shame to miss the compendiousness and convincingness of the picture, of the crumbling - crummy - amalgam of dark and dry, of what is there and what is lost.
- Plat's writings were valued for their compendiousness, and also for their accuracy, brevity, and clarity.
- Within the lifetime of men now living, a miracle of creeping compendiousness occurred in copywriting.
- It has the depth and compendiousness of a textbook, with the readability and poignance of a novel.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus 'advantageous, brief', from compendium 'profit, saving, abbreviation'. Definition of compendious in US English: compendiousadjectivekəmˈpɛndiəskəmˈpendēəs formal Containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way. Example sentencesExamples - Long before Shakespeare's death the playwrights had lost confidence in their power to offer a conspectus or compendious view.
- Now, another problem with that paragraph is that it seeks to deal in a compendious manner with disparate kinds of corroborative evidence.
- With so many decontextualized styles waiting at every exit, his compendious description of the American highway landscape compresses a hemisphereful of designs into a single journey.
- This is a massive, compendious and copiously researched book that tells the whole of what used to be called ‘our island story’.
- In An American Dilemma, a compendious study of American racism, another foreign observer, Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, recognized the self-correcting nature of what he too called the American Creed.
- Our learned friends seek to restrict the word ‘obvious’ to the most narrow meaning possible - that is not the way it has been dealt with - and our friends ignore the fact that it is a compendious concept.
- His book is compendious in its scope, taking in three decades of street life in Los Angeles, a century of the city's police force, and a dramatis personae that runs to five and a half pages.
- Her writing is elegant, the record compendious.
- Failure to listen ranks high in the compendious catalogue of couple complaints.
- Peter Sheppard Skærved, who writes the compendious notes, wonders if Beethoven himself might have written the adagio variation.
- This book details the social lives of children and includes compendious and informative summaries of attachment theory, friendship formation, group power and function, gender issues, and child psychology.
- His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
- Yet, on occasion, one cannot help but admire his eager intelligence and compendious grasp of the field.
- It is authoritative, compendious and highly readable.
- As a bonus question - why has the story vanished from the Guardian's compendious website?
- Housing land supply was exhaustively examined by the local plan inquiry Inspector, who had compendious, borough-wide evidence before him, including information on all potential housing sites.
- The second limb is concerned with what, for want of a better compendious description, can be called the liability of an accessory to a trustee's breach of trust.
- Folklore and legends were retold by the bards, who used devices such as alliteration and rhyme, as well as a compendious store of stock phrases, to aid memorisation and recall, allowing them to instantly ‘compose’ a poem for any occasion.
- Apparently the compendious works on Chicago history by John Kirkland had not been consulted.
- Given the compendious nature of Wood's works, this is hardly surprising, of course.
Synonyms succinct, pithy, short and to the point, short and sweet, potted, thumbnail, brief, crisp, compact, concise, condensed, shortened, contracted, compressed, abridged, abbreviated, summarized, summary, abstracted
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus ‘advantageous, brief’, from compendium ‘profit, saving, abbreviation’. |