| 单词 | concise |
| 释义 | concise (once / 1990 pages) adj If something is concise, it's short and gets right to the point. A concise edition of your diary might be 50 pages of the most important entries. Concise comes from the Latin word concidere, which means to cut down. When we use concise, we're talking about words that have been cut down. There are no concise trees, but there are concise works of political philosophy. A concise Italian-English dictionary, is shorter than an unabridged one. If you're good at quick explanations, you have a concise manner. A good synonym is succinct. WORD FAMILYconcise: concisely, conciseness, concisest USAGE EXAMPLESA history as long as yours deserves a concise airing of your grievance, in all its gory. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) But Salters and her colleagues also need to be concise. New York Times(Dec 11, 2016) Unlike too much writing on places of memory, this is fresh, concise, free from jargon and well informed about realities. Time(Dec 07, 2016) adj expressing much in few words a concise explanation Syn|Ant aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic terse and witty and like a maxim briefconcise and succinct compact, compendious, succinct, summarybriefly giving the gist of something crisp, curt, laconic, tersebrief and to the point; effectively cut short cryptichaving a puzzling terseness elliptic, ellipticalcharacterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements pithy, sententiousconcise and full of meaning telegraphichaving the style of a telegram with many short words left out taciturnhabitually reserved and uncommunicative prolix tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length diffuselacking conciseness long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordyusing or containing too many words verbalprolix pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautologicalrepetition of same sense in different words volublemarked by a ready flow of speech |
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