concise

adjectives

expressing much in few words

"a concise explanation"

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terse and witty and like a maxim

"much given to apothegmatic instruction"

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concise and succinct

"covered the matter in a brief statement"

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briefly giving the gist of something

"a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

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brief and to the point; effectively cut short

"a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

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having a puzzling terseness

"a cryptic note"

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characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements

"the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor

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concise and full of meaning

"welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

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having the style of a telegram with many short words left out

"telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"