succinct

Speech parts

1. succinct - Adjective

2. succinct - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

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Examples

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Vladimir Nabokov

My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate. Anne Taintor

If I were asked to summarize as briefly as possible my vision of things, to reduce it to its most succinct expression, I should replace words with an exclamation point, a definitive! Emil Cioran

I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make. Jonathan Ive

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. Steven Erikson

Never mind what you were doing, Olaf said. You're fired! You can't fire me! Esme growled. I quit! Well, you can leave by mutual agreement, Olaf grumbled and then with another succinct Ha! he lifted the harpoon gun and pointed it at Dewey Denouement. Daniel Handler

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