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compendious

com·pen·dious

uncommon

adjective

1.

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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Origin

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.

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