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   Com·pen·di·ous

   /kəmˈpendēəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way: formal "a compendious study"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus ‘advantageous, brief’, from compendium ‘profit, saving, abbreviation’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. compendiously adverb
   • 2. compendiousness noun

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   What is a compendious word?

   • Usage Note: Traditionally, something that is compendious contains all the essentials in a handy format. It is therefore both comprehensive and concise. This inherent tension—to be comprehensive, it must include abundant detail, yet to be concise, it must be somehow condensed—opens the word up to varied interpretations.

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   What is the difference between laconic and compendious?

   • laconic implies brevity to the point of seeming rude, indifferent, or mysterious. summary suggests the statement of main points with no elaboration or explanation. pithy adds to succinct or terse the implication of richness of meaning or substance. compendious applies to what is at once full in scope and brief and concise in treatment.

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   What is the difference between concise and compendious?

   • The words concise and compendious are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative. When might laconic be a better fit than compendious?

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   What is a compendious history?

   • a compendious history of the world. First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Latin word compendiōsus. See compendium, -ous David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath. A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style.

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   What does compendium mean in English?

   • Compendium has its source in the Latin verb compendere, meaning "to weigh together." concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious mean very brief in statement or expression. concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative. terse implies pointed conciseness. succinct implies the greatest possible compression.

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   What do you think of a complete and compendious work?

   • A very complete and compendious work, apparently accurate and in beautiful style. To other persons they may serve as a compendious view of the most important discoveries relating to the subject. It is, perhaps, too compendious; and I dislike its being given in the form of letters.

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   Compendious means marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter, or comprehensive. Learn its synonyms, antonyms, examples, word history, and more from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Compendious means short but complete, or large and including many things. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and related words and phrases.

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   Compendious definition: of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise. See examples of COMPENDIOUS used in a sentence.

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   Compendious means containing or stating briefly all the essentials of something; comprehensive and concise. Learn the etymology, synonyms, antonyms, and examples of this word from various sources.

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   adjective. briefly giving the gist of something. “a short and compendious book”. synonyms: compact, succinct, summary. breviloquent, concise. expressing much in few words.

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   Jun 15, 2024 · Compendious means containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct. Learn the word origin, synonyms, pronunciation, and usage of compendious with examples from Collins English Dictionary.