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单词 succinct
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Definition of succinct in English:

succinct

adjective səkˈsɪŋ(k)tsə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)t
  • (especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.

    use short, succinct sentences
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He also squeezes in a succinct outline of the social and economic histories of both countries in the periods covered.
    • It was short and succinct: good food, good value, but all the ambience of an aircraft hangar.
    • These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
    • It was a very, with respect, succinct and brief direction given by the trial judge on the point, but we say there was no error in it.
    • Further, the dietetic text provided the model for the early written recipes, typically succinct and summary.
    • Her crisp and succinct discussion of dowry is sure to remain the classic analysis of this subject.
    • There aren't many movie directors prepared to offer succinct class-war summaries in an interview.
    • The prayer is unusually succinct: it summarizes several of the distinctive themes of the teaching of Jesus.
    • The final, and perhaps most demanding, challenge will be to craft a clear and succinct message out of what will be a complex summit process.
    • In a brief but succinct manner the chapter deals with the different joints separately in each disease.
    • Stating a problem in a succinct and crisp manner tends to invite a simple elegant solution.
    • Not the most eloquent of summaries but succinct if nothing else.
    • I relied on the contents of this letter as a succinct summary of the law.
    • Diagrams provide succinct summaries of the chapter content, and the index is easy to use.
    • Instead it is short and succinct and defiantly lays the blame squarely on everyone else.
    • The text fields are clearly separated and succinct, and keep the reader interested.
    • The content itself ranges in nature so greatly from chapter to chapter that no succinct description seems possible.
    • His campaign summaries and election analysis have been succinct and informative.
    • Each module offers a succinct summary to highlight the message given.
    • A senior business analyst at a multinational has the most succinct summary of possible remedies.
    Synonyms
    concise, short, brief, compact, condensed, crisp, laconic, terse, tight, to the point, economic, pithy, thumbnail, summary, short and sweet, in a few well-chosen words, compendious, epigrammatic, synoptic, aphoristic, gnomic

Derivatives

  • succinctness

  • noun səkˈsɪŋ(k)tnəssə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)tnəs
    • Outstanding for her succinctness and profundity, she reminded one of her editors of Beethoven in his late period: ‘Where everything is getting pared down but the content is more concentrated’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Granting myself the luxury of succinctness, I would like to keep a simplistic dualism in the text that follows.
      • It presents the theory of dimension for separable metric spaces with what seems to be an impossible mixture of depth, clarity, precision, succinctness, and comprehensiveness.
      • In his collection, poetic romance and realism, luxury and succinctness, conservatism and novelty are combined in a perfect way.
      • The movement had the succinctness of a wall revolving to reveal a hidden door.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'encircled'): from Latin succinctus 'tucked up', past participle of succingere, from sub- 'from below' + cingere 'gird'.

Rhymes

distinct, extinct
 
 

Definition of succinct in US English:

succinct

adjectivesə(k)ˈsiNG(k)tsə(k)ˈsɪŋ(k)t
  • (especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.

    use short, succinct sentences
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The text fields are clearly separated and succinct, and keep the reader interested.
    • Stating a problem in a succinct and crisp manner tends to invite a simple elegant solution.
    • Instead it is short and succinct and defiantly lays the blame squarely on everyone else.
    • The prayer is unusually succinct: it summarizes several of the distinctive themes of the teaching of Jesus.
    • It was a very, with respect, succinct and brief direction given by the trial judge on the point, but we say there was no error in it.
    • In a brief but succinct manner the chapter deals with the different joints separately in each disease.
    • The final, and perhaps most demanding, challenge will be to craft a clear and succinct message out of what will be a complex summit process.
    • The content itself ranges in nature so greatly from chapter to chapter that no succinct description seems possible.
    • These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.
    • I relied on the contents of this letter as a succinct summary of the law.
    • Further, the dietetic text provided the model for the early written recipes, typically succinct and summary.
    • Diagrams provide succinct summaries of the chapter content, and the index is easy to use.
    • There aren't many movie directors prepared to offer succinct class-war summaries in an interview.
    • A senior business analyst at a multinational has the most succinct summary of possible remedies.
    • Each module offers a succinct summary to highlight the message given.
    • It was short and succinct: good food, good value, but all the ambience of an aircraft hangar.
    • Not the most eloquent of summaries but succinct if nothing else.
    • Her crisp and succinct discussion of dowry is sure to remain the classic analysis of this subject.
    • His campaign summaries and election analysis have been succinct and informative.
    • He also squeezes in a succinct outline of the social and economic histories of both countries in the periods covered.
    Synonyms
    concise, short, brief, compact, condensed, crisp, laconic, terse, tight, to the point, economic, pithy, thumbnail, summary, short and sweet, in a few well-chosen words, compendious, epigrammatic, synoptic, aphoristic, gnomic

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘encircled’): from Latin succinctus ‘tucked up’, past participle of succingere, from sub- ‘from below’ + cingere ‘gird’.

 
 
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