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- a mattress with a compact foam core
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- compact soil that should provide good support for the plant
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- compact prose without a single wasted word
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- aphoristic,
- apothegmatic,
- brief,
- capsule,
- compendious,
- concise,
- crisp,
- curt,
- elliptical
- (or elliptic),
- epigrammatic,
- laconic,
- monosyllabic,
- pithy,
- sententious,
- succinct,
- summary,
- telegraphic,
- terse,
- thumbnail
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compact
nounSynonyms of compact (Entry 2 of 3)
- a five-nation compact to control drug traffic
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- the two made a compact never to artificially prolong the other's life in the event of incapacitating illness or injury
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of compact (Entry 3 of 3)
- the media giant decided to compact all of its far-flung operations onto a single site
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- compact the snow into a tight ball for throwing
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The first known use of compact was in the 14th century
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