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Compactly

adv

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a compact manner

    "she is of middle size, stiffly made, body long, legs short, bust much developed but not compactly moulded, waist disproportionately compressed by an inhumanly braced corset, dress carefully arranged, large feet tortured into small bottines, head small, hair smoothed, braided, oiled, and gummed to perfection"

Adverb
  1. 1
    taking up no more space than necessary wordnet
  2. 2
    with concise and precise brevity; to the point wordnet
  3. 3
    in a compact manner or state wordnet

Etymology

From compact + -ly.

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