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adjective

Succinct adj.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. "His habit fit for speed succinct."

Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. "Let all your precepts be succinct and clear." "The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind."

Synonyms: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... His verbal summary was succinct and accurate. The loot that the Nipe had been stealing had, at first, seemed to be a hodgepodge of everything. It was unpredictable. Money, as such, he apparently had no use for. He had taken gold, silver, and platinum, but one raid for each of these elements had evidently been enough, ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... Indian affairs, and the peculiar situation of the Indian nations east of the Mississippi, have caused that unfortunate people to be the topic of much political controversy and conversation; a succinct account of the political condition of these tribes, and of the policy which has been pursued, and which is being pursued towards them, by the executive government, may ...

— A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America • S. A. Ferrall

... assiduously applied himself to drill and took part in many marches and several field-days. Meanwhile he followed every phase of the War with fascinated interest. He read all the War books he could get and began a War diary, which he entered up every week-end, giving a succinct account of the War's progress on land and sea and in the air. This diary he continued until he entered the Army, and at his request I have kept ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... intention of proving a point, or any pre-conceived idea of the extent of demoralisation, social, moral, or political, which the Roman people had then reached. But a perusal of Mr. Balfour's suggestive lecture on "Decadence" has put me upon making a very succinct diagnosis of the condition of the patient whose life and habits I have been describing. The Romans, and the Italians, with whom they were now socially and politically amalgamated, were not in the ...

— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler

... the like solemn sort of ass, can offer us a succinct proverb by way of advice, and not burst out blushing in our faces. We grant them one and all and for all that they are worth; it is something above and beyond that we desire. Christ was in general a great ...

— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson

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