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" (133 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Adjective(10 words)
Noun(4 words)
academic concisenessbrief explanationbrief history textbookbrief prompt
Strong matches (40)
Adjective(15 words)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (66)
Adjective(24 words)
leanestlinguistic concisenessminimalist explanationsneatestomissivepithierpithiestshort compositionshort musical pieceshort physics guideshort summarysummarysummary reviewtautesttelegraphicterseterse proseterse wordingtersertersest
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Noun(14 words)
minimalistmost unembellishednews briefone-linerplain-language writingromanian compactshort form versionshort reportshort sentence textshorthandsummary measuretelegraphingthe less the betterthe shorter the better
Determiner(1 words)
one line
Adverb(1 words)
Verb(3 words)
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2 entrieslinguistic featurewriting quality
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3 entriesbrief statementconcise sentencelaconic phrasing
Collocations
6 entriessuccinct analysissuccinct explanationsuccinct expressionsuccinct phrasingsuccinct prosesuccinct summary
Inflections
2 entriesmore succinctmost succinct
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample 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.
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