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compendiousadjective covering everything or all important pointsher compendious knowledge of the monarch butterfly all-embracing, all-in(chiefly British), all-inclusive, broad-gauge(or broad-gauged), complete, comprehensive, cover-all, cyclopedic, embracive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, full, global, in-depth, inclusive, omnibus, panoramic, thorough, universal broad, catholic, encyclical, general, inclusionary, overallcosmic(also cosmical), extensive, far, far-reaching, grand, large, panoptic, sweeping, vast, wide, wide-rangingblanket, indiscriminate, unrestricted circumscribed, limited, narrow, restricted, specializedexact, preciseindividual, singular, specificincomplete, patchy, sketchy marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaninga compendious summary of the referendum before the voters aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical(or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail abrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), short, snippety, snippyabbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortenedmeaty, substantialmeaningful, significantwell-turned circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousenlarged, expanded, supplementedembellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious mean very brief in statement or expression.concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative.a concise description terse implies pointed conciseness.a terse reply succinct implies the greatest possible compression.a succinct letter of resignation laconic implies brevity to the point of seeming rude, indifferent, or mysterious.an aloof and laconic stranger summary suggests the statement of main points with no elaboration or explanation.a summary listing of the year's main events pithy adds to succinct or terse the implication of richness of meaning or substance.a comedy sharpened by pithy one-liners compendious applies to what is at once full in scope and brief and concise in treatment.a compendious dictionary in the 14th century |