succinct

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  1. adjective Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style.
  2. adjective Archaic Encircled as if by a girdle; girded.

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  • The lower features were terse, succinct, and powerful,—from the bold, decided jaw, to the large, firm, ugly, good-humored mouth. —  Yesterdays with Authors
  • The reporting is succinct, the interface is clean and easy to navigate. —  Asimov'sSF,June2008
  • It meant that the Superintendent now expected to hear a brief, succinct, accurate, elegantly phrased but comprehensive account of the crime which would give all the salient facts so far known to someone who came to it freshly. —  Shroud for a Nightingale
  • So we're going to keep this rather succinct, because no one likes Happy April Fool's Day!
  • Staycation is a succinct, witty way of labelling the new trend for staying in your home country at holiday time, but it is suffering for enshrining both green and economic concerns, which as we have seen above, is a sure way to tick people off. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
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  1. Middle English succincte, girt, from Old French, from Latin succīnctus, past participle of succingere, to gird from below : sub-, sub- + cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French succinct = Spanish sucinto = Portuguese Italian succinto, from Latin succinctus, past participle of succingere, gird below or from below, tuck up, from sub, under, + cingere, gird: see cincture.
 

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