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compendious

[ kuhm-pen-dee-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

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.

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.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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