compendious
- adjective
- /kəmˈpɛn.dɪ.əs/
- Formal
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sucinto
- The result is a major study of American historical communes that has already become one of the standard works on the subject, supplementing and superseding such classics as the compendious accounts of Hinds and Noves.
Your own spirit gives you the exact perfect way to feel to handle that scenario in the most effective and compendious way possible.
- Your own spirit gives you the exact perfect way to feel to handle that scenario in the most effective and compendious way possible.
Examples
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Matters of parliamentary politics were felt by them to deserve backgrounding in relation to what belonged to the serious subject matter implied by the compendious period sense of the word literature.
Academic text (1996) -
The professor gave a compendious overview of the subject in just a few pages.
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Your own spirit gives you the exact perfect way to feel to handle that scenario in the most effective and compendious way possible.
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He wrote this book called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing back in the day.
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There was too much "information" to absorb or digest, even when armed with the compendious accompanying catalogues, which, if anything, served to complicate things further.
Academic text (1998) -
For Lyotard, by contrast, aesthetics became more a "gay science," concerned with a time to come rather than a compendious "philosophy of history," a restless activity that starts in those "incommensurabilities" in our practices or agreements which ensure that the language one ends up with in thinking is never the same as the one from which one starts, since it translates something as yet unspoken and never completely understood.
Academic text (1998) -
Many have been accompanied by compendious catalogues (e.g., Ezra 1992, Duchateau 1994) as well as curriculum guides (Watts 1994, Midwinter 1994).
Academic text (1997) -
The report was compendious, summarizing all the important findings in a clear manner.
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Her compendious notes helped the students quickly grasp the key concepts of the course.
Synonyms
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4.6
Covering almost everything to give a complete and detailed view
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4.2
Using few words to give important information clearly
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6.4
Short and clear, using only a few words
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4.2
Short and clear, using only a few words
Antonyms
How Concise
Surface Forms
Morphology
compendious = compendium (transparent) = compendium + ious
The adjective is transparently derived from 'compendium' with the productive suffix '-ious', so a learner familiar with 'compendium' and '-ious' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Compendious comes from the Latin word compendium, which meant 'a saving' or 'short cut'. So a compendious text saves your time by giving the main points in a short, complete form.