Succinct

Definition: Succinct

Succinct

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 "succinct" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Succinct \Suc*cinct"\, adjective. [Latin expression succinctus, past participle of succingere to gird below or from below, to tuck up; sub cingere to gird. Compare to Cincture.]. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Succinct

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.

Crosswords: Succinct

French (succinct, terse).

Books

• A topographical description of the western territory of North America; containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners & customs (reference)

• Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion, 1415-1825: A Succinct Survey (reference)

• Guerrilla Oracle: The Succinct Windows Perspective (reference)

• Guide succinct des sources archivistiques relatives áa l'histoire de la guerre et de l'occupation en Belgique (reference)

• Manual of Natural Therapy: A Succinct Catalog of Complementary Treatments (reference)

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Albanian

i përmbledhur (brief, collected, compendious, laconic, tabloid, terse), i ngjeshur (close, compact, compressed, concise, concisely, dense, impermeable, serried, stiff). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, firm, lapidary, open, serried, summary, terse, thick, tight), препасан, плътно прилягащ. (various references)

Chinese 

简洁 (terse, terseness). (various references)

Czech

struèný (brief, concise, thumbnail), lapidární (concise, terse), krátký (brief, concise, Cutty, quick, short, stumpy, thumbnail), úseèný (brief, crisp, curt, incisive, offhand, short, short-spoken). (various references)

Farsi 

فشرده (Massive, Squeeze), موجز (Compendious, Concise, Laconic, Summary, Terse), مختصر (Compendium, Concise, Epitome, Little, Short, Sum, Summary, Synopsis, Terse), مجمل (Abstract, Compendious, Inconclusive, Synopsis), چکیده (Ooze, Tabloid), کوتاه (Concise, Dumpy, Laconic, Little, Low, Miniature, Punch, Short, Stocky, Stunt, Transient). (various references)

Finnish

suppea (brief, concise, incomplete, terse, uninformative), lyhytsanainen (curt, short). (various references)

French

succinct, sommaire (summary), concis, bref. (various references)

German

prägnant (concise, incisive, laconic, pithily, pithy, terse). (various references)

Greek 

σύντομος (brief, soon), σαφήσ και σύντομοσ, περιεκτικός (comprehensive), περιληπτικόσ (comprehensive, concise, omnibus). (various references)

Hebrew 

מובע בקצור, תמציתי (concise, essential, laconic, pithy, quintessential, summary, synoptic, terse). (various references)

Hungarian

tömör (brief, close, compendious, concise, consistent, consistent with, laconic, pithy, quintessential, sententious, short, solid, terse, tight), szűkszavú (laconic, reticent, scant of speech, sparing of words, to be short of speech, to say little), rövid (at short notice, brief, compendious, concise, curt, ejaculatory, epigrammatic, flying, halt, mercantile paper, quarrel, short, to go for a drive, to spell). (various references)

Indonesian

sumir (brief, short). (various references)

Italian

succinto (concise, scanty, skimpy, tabloid), conciso (brief, concise, curt, neat, pithy, short, tabloid, taut, terse, thumbnail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

簡にして要�'得た (brief). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"にしてよう�'えた (brief). (various references)

Korean 

간결한 (Concise, terse). (various references)

Pig Latin

uccinctsay.(various references)

Portuguese

sucinto (concise, summary), resumido (abridged, compendious, concise, summary), lacônico (concise, laconic, short), conciso (brief, compact, concise, curt, tabloid, terse), breve (brief, compact, curt, little, rescript, short, short-lived, snippy, speedy, summary, telegraphic, temporary, transient). (various references)

Romanian

succint (brief, concise), scurt (brief, briefly, close, curt, short, skimpy, small, snippy, stocky, summary). (various references)

Russian 

сжатый (brief, cabined, compact, compendious, concise, recapitulatory, short-winded, shrunken, tabloid, terse, tight). (various references)

Scottish

cruinn (assembled, globular, round, spherical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sažet (compendious, concise, contractive, laconic, lapidary, terse), jezgrovit (concise, hardcore, laconic, pithy, terse), jedar (bouncing, crisp, firm, plump). (various references)

Spanish

sucinto (concise). (various references)

Swedish

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

Thai

สั้นกระชับ (laconic, tight). (various references)

Turkish

kısa (brief, capsule, compendious, concise, curt, flying, mini, short, stumpy), az ve öz (multum in parvo, tabloid), özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sappy, sententious, starchy, substantial, succulent, terse). (various references)

Ukrainian

стислий (compact, compendious, concise, condensed, lapidary, pithy, tabloid, telegraphic, terse), нетривалий (impermanent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngắn gọn (briefly, concise, telescopic, telescopical), cô đọng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "succinct": succincter, succinctest, succinctly, succinctness, succinctnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Succinct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saccinct, succict, succinctt, succinet, succint, sucinct, sucsinct, suscinct. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cutins, tunics.

-3 letters: cutin, cutis, ictus, incus, suint, tunic, units.

-4 letters: cist, cuts, nits, nuts, scut, snit, stun, suit, tics, tins, tuis, tuns, unci, unit.

-5 letters: cis, cut, ins, its, nit, nus, nut, sic, sin, sit, sun, tic, tin, tis, tui, tun, uns, uts.

+2 letters: succincter, succinctly.

+3 letters: succinctest.

+4 letters: circumstance, concupiscent, succinctness.

+5 letters: accountancies, circumcenters, circumstanced, circumstances.