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adjective

Succinct adj.

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. "His habit fit for speed succinct."

Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. "Let all your precepts be succinct and clear." "The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind."

Synonyms: Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse.

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Etymology of 'Succinct'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Succinct" Quotes from Famous Books

... some technical details of their constitution and their forms of proceeding; and I know not how to descend to these minutiae without wearying the curiosity of the reader by the natural aridity of the subject, or without risking to fall into obscurity through a desire to be succinct. I can scarcely hope to escape these various evils; for if I appear too lengthy to a man of the world, a lawyer may on the other hand complain of my brevity. But these are the natural disadvantages of my subject, and more especially of the point which ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... which Shakspere is renowned above all English poets, not one, I think, is to be found in those three thousand fluently-scanned and smoothly-worded lines: on the contrary, the wearisome succession of stanzas, stretching the succinct themes immeasurably beyond all natural fitness and all narrative interest, might seem to signalise such a lack of artistic judgment as must preclude all great performance; while the apparent plan ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... a deserter, sir," I answered in a firm voice; and I then gave him a clear and succinct account of the cutting-out expedition in Santa Cruz harbour, in which I had been engaged, and the way in which my life had ...

— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston

... Moulder and his sister, that he would be very reserved in any communication which he might make to Dockwrath as to his possible evidence at the coming trial; but nevertheless when Dockwrath had got him into his office, the attorney made him give a succinct account of everything he knew, taking down his deposition in a regular manner. "And now if you'll just sign that," Dockwrath said to ...

— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope

... a solid two minutes I had to bear as calmly as I could the abuse and vituperation which the feminine proprietor of this "respectable house" chose to hurl at my unfortunate head. After which I obtained a hearing from the bewildered minions of the law. To them I gave as brief and succinct a narrative as I could of the events of the past three days. The theft of Carissimo—the disappearance of Theodore—my meeting him a while ago, with the dog under his arm—his second disappearance, this time within the doorway ...

— Castles in the Air • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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