concise
adjEtymology
From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Definitions
Brief, yet including all important information.
Physically short or truncated.
- 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.
To make concise
To make concise; to abridge or summarize.
The neighborhood
- synonymbrief
- synonymconcise
- synonymcrisp
- synonymlaconic
- synonymlapidary
- synonymshort-winded
- synonymsuccinct
- synonymtight
- synonymto the point
- synonymtaut
- synonymterse
- antonymverbose
- neighbortaciturn
- neighborsuccinctness
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at concise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at concise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at concise
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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