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compendious
Synonyms and Antonyms of compendious
- her compendious knowledge of the monarch butterfly
broad, catholic, encyclical, general, inclusionary, overall
cosmic (also cosmical), extensive, far, far-reaching, grand, large, sweeping, vast, wide, wide-ranging
- a compendious summary of the referendum before the voters
brief, capsule, compact, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, terse, thumbnail
Synonym Discussion of compendious
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- a concise description
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- a terse reply
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- a succinct letter of resignation
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- an aloof and laconic stranger
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- a summary listing of the year's main events
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- a comedy sharpened by pithy one-liners
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- a compendious dictionary
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