Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Concise Defined

Dictionary.com: "expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope".

Business Communication - Process and Product (Nelson): "Expressing a message in as few words as possible".

Askdefine.com: "expressing much in few words".

Etymology: From Late Latin concisus ("cut short").

Synonyms:
abridged, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compact, compendiary, compendious, compressed, condensed, curt, epigrammatic, in a nutshell, laconic, lean, marrowy, meaty, pithy,succinct, summary, synoptic, terse

Concise in Different Languages
  • Czech: stručný
  • Dutch: beknopt
  • Finnish: ytimekäs,lyhytsanainen
  • French: boncis
  • Hebrew: תמציתי (tamtzity) , תמציתית (tamtzityt)
  • Italian: conciso
  • Spanish: conciso
  • Swedish: koncis,kortfattad
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