concise

From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsaɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)

1. Brief, yet including all important information

   Synonyms: succinct, terse; see also Thesaurus:concise

   Antonym: verbose

2. (obsolete) Physically short or truncated
   • 1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:

     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.

concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)

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

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.siz/

concise

1. feminine singular of concis

• IPA^(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.ze/
• Rhymes: -ize
• Hyphenation: con‧cì‧se

concise

1. feminine plural of conciso

• conscie, scenico, sconcie

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concīse

1. vocative masculine singular of concīsus

• “concise”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• concise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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