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Compendious

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized

    "AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system."

  2. 2
    briefly describing a body of knowledge
Adjective
  1. 1
    briefly giving the gist of something wordnet

Etymology

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.

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