Compendious

Definition: Compendious

Compendious

Adjective

1. Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject".

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Date "compendious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)

Etymology: Compendious \Com*pen"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression compendiosus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Compendious

Compendium

Adjective: compendious, synoptic, analectic; abrege, abridged; Verb: variorum.

Conciseness

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Shortness

Adjective: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky, decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise; summary.

Crosswords: Compendious

Books

• A Compendious English Tamil Dictionary: A Handbook of the Tamil Language (reference)

• A compendious history of American Methodism (reference)

• A Compendious Syriac Dictionary (reference)

• A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical, Being a Compendious Account of the Lives and Writings of Upwards of 800 British A (reference)

• A Plain and Compendious Method of Teaching Thorough Bass (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i përmbledhur (brief, collected, laconic, succinct, tabloid, terse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مختصر (abbreviated, abridged, brief, concise, outline, precis, shortened, summarized, summary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, concise, epigrammatic, firm, lapidary, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, thick, tight), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog). (various references)

Czech

souhrnný (aggregate, cumulative, global, summary). (various references)

Farsi 

ملخص (Gist, Sketch, Summary), موجز (Concise, Laconic, Succinct, Summary, Terse), مختصرومفید (Pithy, Precise, Terse), مجمل (Abstract, Inconclusive, Succinct, Synopsis). (various references)

French

concis (concise), compendieux. (various references)

German

zusammengefasst (abridgement, condensed, pooled, potted, summarized). (various references)

Greek 

συνοπτικόσ (concise, summary, synoptic, synoptical). (various references)

Hungarian

velős (concise, laconic, meaty, pithy, pointed, sententious, succinct, terse), tömör (brief, close, concise, consistent, consistent with, laconic, pithy, quintessential, sententious, short, solid, succinct, terse, tight), rövid (at short notice, brief, concise, curt, ejaculatory, epigrammatic, flying, halt, mercantile paper, quarrel, short, succinct, to go for a drive, to spell). (various references)

Indonesian

ringkas (brief, laconic, pithy). (various references)

Italian

compendioso. (various references)

Pig Latin

ompendiouscay

Portuguese

compendioso, resumido (abridged, concise, succinct, summary). (various references)

Romanian

cuprinzãtor (ample, broad, comprehensive, extensive, far reaching, inclusive, long range, open-mindedly, wide), concis (brief, compact, concise, curt, gnomic, laconic, laconically, lapidary, short, shortly, terse), sumar (abstract, concise, docket, epitome, hasty, resume, sketchy, summarily, summary). (various references)

Russian 

краткий (brief, concise, curt, lapidary, recapitulatory, short, short winded, short-form, succinct, terse, thumb-nail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sažet (concise, contractive, laconic, lapidary, succinct, terse). (various references)

Spanish

compendioso. (various references)

Swedish

kortfattad (concise, laconic, short, succinct, summary). (various references)

Turkish

kısa (brief, capsule, concise, curt, flying, mini, short, stumpy, succinct), özet halinde, öz (compact, content, core, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole). (various references)

Ukrainian

стислий (compact, concise, condensed, lapidary, pithy, succinct, tabloid, telegraphic, terse), короткий (brief, concise, curt, near, recapitulative, recapitulatory, short). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compendious": compendiously, compendiousness, compendiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compendious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Compendiosa, comprendo, conpendious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: compounds, monecious.

-3 letters: compends, composed, compound, consumed, dominoes, empoison, idoneous, impounds, monodies, poisoned, unpoised.

-4 letters: codeins, comedos, compend, compone, compose, condoes, condoms, coniums, conoids, consume, copious, coupons, demonic, domines, dominos, emodins, impends, imponed, impones, imposed, impound, incomes, incudes, incused, induces, medicos, mesonic, miscode, miscued, misdone, monodic, mucoids, noisome, ominous, opsonic, peonism, piceous, pocosin.

+2 letters: compendiously, mispronounced.

+4 letters: compendiousness.