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compendious

compendious adjective: containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized.

Adjective

compendious (comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious)

  1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
    • AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s.
      This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26
  2. briefly describing a body of knowledge

compendious meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

compendious in Bengali

সংক্ষিপ্ত কিন্তু ব্যাপক অর্থবিশিষ্ট

compendious in Malayalam

pithy, succinct, short and to the point
സംക്ഷിപ്തവും സാരവത്തുമായ, സംക്ഷിപ്ത, സാരവത്തായ, സ്പഷ്ടവും സംക്ഷിപ്തവുമായ, സംക്ഷിപ്തരൂപത്തിലുള്ള, ഹ്രസ്വവും സാരവത്തുമായ

Forms of compendious

comparativemore compendious
superlativemost compendious

Origin of compendious

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.

Words formed from compendious

Questions about compendious

What does compendious mean?
Compendious means containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized.
What is compendious in Bengali?
Compendious in Bengali is সংক্ষিপ্ত কিন্তু ব্যাপক অর্থবিশিষ্ট. See Compendious meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is compendious?
Compendious is an adjective.

Words near compendious in the dictionary

  1. compendia
  2. compendial
  3. compendiary
  4. compendiate
  5. compendiated
  6. compendious
  7. compendiously
  8. compendiousness
  9. compendium
  10. compendiums
  11. compends

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: compendious (page history and authors); compendious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); compendious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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