concise

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsaɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• concisely
• conciseness
• concision
• unconcise

Translations

brief and precise

Afrikaans: beknopt Arabic: وَجِيز (wajīz), مُوجَز (mūjaz) Armenian: սեղմ (hy) (seġm) Azerbaijani: yığcam, müxtəsər Belarusian: каро́ткі (be) (karótki), сці́слы (scísly), лакані́чны (lakaníčny) Bulgarian: кра́тък (bg) (krátǎk), сте́гнат (bg) (stégnat) Catalan: concís Chinese: Mandarin: 簡明 / 简明 (zh) (jiǎnmíng) Czech: stručný (cs) Danish: koncis, kortfattet Dutch: beknopt (nl), bondig (nl) Esperanto: konciza Finnish: ytimekäs (fi), lyhytsanainen French: concis (fr) Galician: conciso (gl) Georgian: მოკლე (moḳle), შემოკლებული (šemoḳlebuli) German: kurz (de), prägnant (de), knapp (de), konzis (de), bündig (de), gedrängt (de) (figurative) Greek: σύντομος (el) (sýntomos), περιεκτικός (el) (periektikós), συνοπτικός (el) (synoptikós), λακωνικός (el) (lakonikós) Hebrew: תַּמְצִיתִי (tamtsití) Hindi: संक्षिप्त (hi) (saṅkṣipt) Hungarian: tömör (hu), velős (hu) Irish: achomair Italian: conciso (it) Japanese: 簡潔な (ja) (kanketsu na), 手短な (ja) (temijika na) Latin: succīnctus, astrictus Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok), зби́ен (zbíen), сте́гнат (stégnat), ла́конски (lákonski) Mongolian: авсар (avsar) Norwegian: konsis Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz) Persian: مختصر (fa) (moxtasar) Polish: zwięzły (pl), lakoniczny (pl) Portuguese: conciso (pt), sucinto (pt) Russian: кра́ткий (ru) (krátkij), лакони́чный (ru) (lakoníčnyj), сжа́тый (ru) (sžátyj) Scottish Gaelic: pongail Serbo-Croatian: sažet (sh) Spanish: conciso (es), breve (es), sucinto (es), escueto (es) Swedish: koncis (sv), kortfattad (sv) Thai: กระชับ (th) (grà-cháp), สั้นได้ใจความ Tibetan: བསྡུས་པ (bsdus pa), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang), རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི (rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i) Turkish: mucez (obsolescent), özlü (tr) Ukrainian: коро́ткий (uk) (korótkyj), сти́слий (stýslyj), лаконі́чний (lakoníčnyj)

Verb

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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.siz/

Adjective

concise

1. feminine singular of concis

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈt͡ʃi.ze/
• Rhymes: -ize
• Hyphenation: con‧cì‧se

Adjective

concise

1. feminine plural of conciso

Anagrams

• conscie, scenico, sconcie

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔŋˈkiː.sɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃiː.s̬e]

Participle

concīse

1. vocative masculine singular of concīsus

References

• “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.

Anagrams

• Cicones