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Adjective: concise (conciser,concisest)  kun'sIs
  1. Expressing much in few words
    "a concise explanation"

Derived forms: concisest, conciser

See also: aphoristic, apophthegmatic [Brit, Cdn], apothegmatic [N. Amer], brief, compact, compendious, crisp, cryptic, curt, elliptic, elliptical, epigrammatic, laconic, long-windedness, pithy, prolixity, prolixness, sententious, succinct, summary, taciturn, telegraphic, terse, windiness, wordiness

Antonym: prolix

Encyclopedia: Concise, Switzerland

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