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Concise

//kənˈsaɪs// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Brief, yet including all important information.
  2. 2
    Physically short or truncated. obsolete

    "This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet."

Adjective
  1. 1
    expressing much in few words wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make concise; to abridge or summarize. India, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

Etymology 2

From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

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