succinct
/səkˈsɪŋ(k)t
/adjective
(Especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed: use short, succinct sentences...
- Further, the dietetic text provided the model for the early written recipes, typically succinct and summary.
- The text fields are clearly separated and succinct, and keep the reader interested.
- There aren't many movie directors prepared to offer succinct class-war summaries in an interview.
Synonyms
concise, short, brief, compact, condensed, crisp, laconic, terse, tight, to the point, economic, pithy, thumbnail, summary, short and sweet, in a few well-chosen words, compendious, epigrammatic, synoptic, aphoristic, gnomic
Derivatives
succinctness
/ noun ...- It presents the theory of dimension for separable metric spaces with what seems to be an impossible mixture of depth, clarity, precision, succinctness, and comprehensiveness.
- Outstanding for her succinctness and profundity, she reminded one of her editors of Beethoven in his late period: ‘Where everything is getting pared down but the content is more concentrated’.
- In his collection, poetic romance and realism, luxury and succinctness, conservatism and novelty are combined in a perfect way.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'encircled'): from Latin succinctus 'tucked up', past participle of succingere, from sub- 'from below' + cingere 'gird'.
Rhymes
- to the best of my belief
- to the best of one's ability
- to the best of one's knowledge
- to (the best of) someone's knowledge
- to the bitter end
- to the bone
- to the contrary
- to the core
- to the day
- to the death
- to the effect that
- to the exclusion of
- to the finish
- to the fore
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunwales
- to the letter
- to the life
- to the marrow
- to the nearest ——
- to the nth degree
- to the point
- to the purpose
- t'other