Entry Word: concise

Function: adjective

Meaning: marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning <a concise article on violence in the media that manages to say more than most books on the subject>

Synonyms aphoristic, brief, compact, compendious, crisp, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, succinct, summary, terse

Related Words abrupt, blunt, brusque, curt, short, snippy; abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened; meaty, substantial; meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms redundant, repetitious, tautological; enlarged, expanded, supplemented; embellished, embroidered, exaggerated

Antonyms diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, wordy