Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.
Source: tatoeba (1954)
Succinct
//səkˈsɪŋkt//
Synonyms for "succinct" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (34)
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Translations
55 translations across 26 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սեղմ adj (brief and to the point)
Bulgarian
3 entries- компактен adj (compressed into a tiny area)
- кратък adj (brief and to the point)
- сбит adj (brief and to the point)
Catalan
1 entries- succint adj (brief and to the point)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 簡明的 /简明的 adj (brief and to the point)
- 簡潔的 /简洁的 adj (brief and to the point)
Czech
2 entries- stručný adj (brief and to the point)
- zhuštěný adj (compressed into a tiny area)
Danish
1 entries- koncis, fyndig adj (brief and to the point)
Dutch
2 entries- bondig adj (brief and to the point)
- compact adj (compressed into a tiny area)
Finnish
2 entries- tiivis adj (compressed into a tiny area)
- ytimekäs adj (brief and to the point)
French
1 entries- succinct adj (brief and to the point)
German
4 entries- bündig adj (brief and to the point)
- knapp adj (brief and to the point)
- kompakt adj (compressed into a tiny area)
- kurz adj (brief and to the point)
Greek
2 entries- λακωνικός adj (brief and to the point)
- συνοπτικός adj (brief and to the point)
Hungarian
2 entries- tömör adj (brief and to the point)
- velős adj (brief and to the point)
Japanese
1 entries- 簡潔な adj (brief and to the point)
Kazakh
1 entries- қысқаша adj (brief and to the point)
Latin
1 entries- succinctus adj (brief and to the point)
Macedonian
4 entries- зби́ен adj (brief and to the point)
- ко́нцизен adj (brief and to the point)
- кра́ток adj (brief and to the point)
- ла́конски adj (brief and to the point)
Norwegian
1 entries- konsis adj (brief and to the point)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- وجیز adj (brief and to the point)
Persian
2 entries- مختصر و مفید adj (brief and to the point)
- موجز adj (brief and to the point)
Polish
2 entries- treściwy adj (brief and to the point)
- zwięzły adj (brief and to the point)
Portuguese
1 entries- sucinto adj (brief and to the point)
Russian
4 entries- кра́ткий adj (brief and to the point)
- лаконичный adj (brief and to the point)
- сжа́тый adj (compressed into a tiny area)
- ёмкий adj (brief and to the point)
Spanish
1 entries- sucinto adj (brief and to the point)
Swedish
1 entries- koncis adj (brief and to the point)
Tibetan
3 entries- བསྡུས་པ adj (brief and to the point)
- ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ adj (brief and to the point)
- ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང adj (brief and to the point)
Turkish
4 entries- muhtasar adj (brief and to the point)
- mücmel adj (brief and to the point)
- sıkı adj (compressed into a tiny area)
- veciz adj (brief and to the point)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Why persist in writing essays if one has not even mastered the art of writing succinct sentences?
Source: tatoeba (4445248)
This summary is too succinct; it needs further elaboration to make it understandable.
Source: tatoeba (6634957)
The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.
Source: tatoeba (6907336)
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