Definition of succinct in English:

adjective

• (especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.

  ‘use short, succinct sentences’

  More example sentences

  • ‘These law professors can be succinct, not to say gnomic, not to say utterly obscure.’
  • ‘The content itself ranges in nature so greatly from chapter to chapter that no succinct description seems possible.’
  • ‘Further, the dietetic text provided the model for the early written recipes, typically succinct and summary.’
  • ‘The final, and perhaps most demanding, challenge will be to craft a clear and succinct message out of what will be a complex summit process.’
  • ‘He also squeezes in a succinct outline of the social and economic histories of both countries in the periods covered.’
  • ‘Each module offers a succinct summary to highlight the message given.’
  • ‘Her crisp and succinct discussion of dowry is sure to remain the classic analysis of this subject.’
  • ‘There aren't many movie directors prepared to offer succinct class-war summaries in an interview.’
  • ‘The prayer is unusually succinct: it summarizes several of the distinctive themes of the teaching of Jesus.’
  • ‘Stating a problem in a succinct and crisp manner tends to invite a simple elegant solution.’
  • ‘Not the most eloquent of summaries but succinct if nothing else.’
  • ‘I relied on the contents of this letter as a succinct summary of the law.’
  • ‘The text fields are clearly separated and succinct, and keep the reader interested.’
  • ‘It was short and succinct: good food, good value, but all the ambience of an aircraft hangar.’
  • ‘It was a very, with respect, succinct and brief direction given by the trial judge on the point, but we say there was no error in it.’
  • ‘A senior business analyst at a multinational has the most succinct summary of possible remedies.’
  • ‘Instead it is short and succinct and defiantly lays the blame squarely on everyone else.’
  • ‘Diagrams provide succinct summaries of the chapter content, and the index is easy to use.’
  • ‘In a brief but succinct manner the chapter deals with the different joints separately in each disease.’
  • ‘His campaign summaries and election analysis have been succinct and informative.’

  Synonyms

  concise, short, brief, compact, condensed, crisp, laconic, terse, tight, to the point, economic, pithy, thumbnail, summary, short and sweet, in a few well-chosen words, compendious, epigrammatic, synoptic, aphoristic, gnomic

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