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

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.

brief and precise

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.

concise

  1. feminine singular of concis
  • IPA(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.ze/
  • Rhymes: -ize
  • Hyphenation: con‧cì‧se

concise

  1. feminine plural of conciso

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.