concise

ENEnglish
//kənˈsaɪs//

Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections
Third-person singular (he/she/it):concises
Present Participle (-ing):concising
Past Participle:concised
Simple Past:concised

Definitions & Usage

adjective
#1

Brief, yet including all important information.

adjective
#2

(obsolete) Physically short or truncated.

verb
#3

(India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

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.

1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:

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