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compendious
[ kuhm-pen-dee-uhs ]
adjective
- of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise:
a compendious history of the world.
Synonyms: packed, succinct, comprehensive, summary
compendious
/ kəmˈpɛndɪəs /
adjective
- containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
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Derived Forms
- comˈpendiousness, noun
- comˈpendiously, adverb
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Other Words From
- com·pendi·ous·ly adverb
- com·pendi·ous·ness noun
- uncom·pendi·ous adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compendious1
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Example Sentences
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.
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.
He sat down by his lamp and tried to read—to read a little compendious life of a great English statesman, out of a “series.”
But there is another way, more compendious still, of summing up his political chronicle.
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