concise - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
- Brief, yet including all important information.
- Synonyms: succinct, terse; see also Thesaurus:concise
- Antonym: verbose
- (obsolete) Physically short or truncated.
1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:
This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet.
brief and precise
- Afrikaans: beknopt
- Arabic: وَجِيز (wajīz), مُوجَز (mūjaz)
- Armenian: սեղմ (hy) (seġm)
- Azerbaijani: yığcam, müxtəsər
- Belarusian: каро́ткі (be) (karótki), сці́слы (scísly), лакані́чны (lakaníčny)
- Bulgarian: кра́тък (bg) (krátǎk), сте́гнат (bg) (stégnat)
- Catalan: concís
- Chinese:
- Czech: stručný (cs)
- Danish: koncis, kortfattet
- Dutch: beknopt (nl), bondig (nl)
- Esperanto: konciza
- Finnish: ytimekäs (fi), lyhytsanainen
- French: concis (fr)
- Galician: conciso (gl)
- Georgian: მოკლე (moḳle), შემოკლებული (šemoḳlebuli)
- German: kurz (de), prägnant (de), knapp (de), konzis (de), bündig (de), gedrängt (de) (figurative)
- Greek: σύντομος (el) (sýntomos), περιεκτικός (el) (periektikós), συνοπτικός (el) (synoptikós), λακωνικός (el) (lakonikós)
- Hebrew: תַּמְצִיתִי (tamtsití)
- Hindi: संक्षिप्त (hi) (saṅkṣipt)
- Hungarian: tömör (hu), velős (hu)
- Irish: achomair
- Italian: conciso (it)
- Japanese: 簡潔な (ja) (kanketsu na), 手短な (ja) (temijika na)
- Latin: succīnctus, astrictus
- Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok), зби́ен (zbíen), сте́гнат (stégnat), ла́конски (lákonski)
- Mongolian: авсар (avsar)
- Norwegian: konsis
- Persian: مختصر (fa) (moxtasar)
- Polish: zwięzły (pl), lakoniczny (pl)
- Portuguese: conciso (pt), sucinto (pt)
- Russian: кра́ткий (ru) (krátkij), лакони́чный (ru) (lakoníčnyj), сжа́тый (ru) (sžátyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: pongail
- Serbo-Croatian: sažet (sh)
- Spanish: conciso (es), breve (es), sucinto (es), escueto (es)
- Swedish: koncis (sv), kortfattad (sv)
- Thai: กระชับ (th) (grà-cháp), สั้นได้ใจความ
- Tibetan: བསྡུས་པ (bsdus pa), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang), རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི (rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i)
- Turkish: mucez (obsolescent), özlü (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz)
- Ukrainian: коро́ткий (uk) (korótkyj), сти́слий (stýslyj), лаконі́чний (lakoníčnyj)
concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)
- (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
concise
concise
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔŋˈkiː.sɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬e]
concīse
- “concise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concise”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.