Word Meanings - SUCCINCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. His habit fit for speed succinct. Milton. 2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. Roscommon. The shortest and most succinct model that

Additional info about word: SUCCINCT

1. Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together. His habit fit for speed succinct. Milton. 2. Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise. Let all your precepts be succinct and clear. Roscommon. The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. South. Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; summary; compendious; laconic; terse. -- Suc*cinct"ly, adv. -- Suc*cinct"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUCCINCT)

• Compendious
• Condensed
• concentrated
• brief
• short
• succinct
• concise
• abridged
• commodious
• convenient
• useful
• handy
• comprehensive
• compact
• Concise
• terse
• pregnant
• expressive
• pointed
• neat
• compendious
• summary
• Summary
• offhand
• decisive
• quick
• sharp
• unceremonious
• informal
• rapid
• Terse
• Neat
• smooth
• pithy
• forcible
• energetic

Related words: (words related to SUCCINCT)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• TERSE
  1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants."
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.
• ENFORCIBLE
  That may be enforced.