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compendious
Synonyms and Antonyms of compendious
- her compendious knowledge of the monarch butterfly
all-embracing, all-in [chiefly British], all-inclusive, broad-gauge (or broad-gauged), complete, comprehensive, cover-all, cyclopedic, embracive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, full, global, in-depth, inclusive, omnibus, panoramic, thorough, universal
broad, catholic, encyclical, general, inclusionary, overall
cosmic (also cosmical), extensive, far, far-reaching, grand, large, panoptic, sweeping, vast, wide, wide-ranging
- a compendious summary of the referendum before the voters
aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, 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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