Compendious

Synonyms for "compendious" (73 found)

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Closest matches (15)

concise abbreviated abridged across the board across-the-board all comprehensive all inclusive all-comprehensive all-inclusive aphoristic aposiopestic blanket brief brusque clipped

Strong matches (22)

close compact complete comprehensive compressed condensed contracted crisp curt curtal curtate cut decurtate docked elliptic elliptical encyclopedic epigrammatic fleeting global

Adjective(1 words)

compact

Adjective(1 words)

compendiary

Related words (36)

Related word relations

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4 relation types

Related terms

2 entries

compendia compendium

derived

4 entries

compendiously compendiousness incompendious uncompendious

related to

7 entries

abridged compendia compendium subset succinctly summarized word

similar

2 entries

concise

Translations

4 translations across 2 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

сбит adj (containing a subset of words)
съкратен adj (containing a subset of words)

Russian

2 entries

кра́ткий adj (containing a subset of words)
сжа́тый adj (containing a subset of words)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

After years of study, he has compendious knowledge on the matter.

Source: tatoeba (11891174)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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