concise
/kənˈsaɪs/
concise adjective: brief, yet including all important information.
Adjective
concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
- Brief, yet including all important information.
- Antonyms:
- verbose
- 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.1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56
Verb
concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)
concise meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
concise in Hindi
- brief and precise
- संक्षिप्त saṅkṣipt
concise in Tamil
- சுருக்கமான
concise in Urdu
- concise
- مختصر muxtasar
concise in Bengali
- সংক্ষিপ্ত ও সারগর্ভ
More languagesFewer languages
- concise in Malayalam
- ചുരുക്കമായ, പരിമിതവാക്കായ, വികലമായ, സംക്ഷിപ്തമായ
- concise in Kannada
- ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ, ಅಡಕ
- concise in Arabic
- وَجِيز wajīz, مُوجَز mūjaz
- concise in Persian
- مختصر moxtasar
- concise in Thai
- กระชับ grà-cháp, สั้นได้ใจความ
Examples of concise in a sentence
- In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.
- His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to uninitiated listeners, but it was clear and concise to practitioners.
- His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated, but it was clear and concise to practitioners.
Synonyms of concise
Antonyms
Forms of concise
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more concise |
| superlative | most concise |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | concises |
| present participle | concising |
| past participle | concised |
| past | concised |
Origin of concise
From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Words formed from concise
Words that rhyme with concise
Questions about concise
- What does concise mean?
- Concise means brief, yet including all important information.
- What is concise in Hindi?
- Concise in Hindi is संक्षिप्त (saṅkṣipt). See Concise meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is concise?
- Concise can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce concise?
- Concise is pronounced /kənˈsaɪs/.
Words near concise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: concise (page history and authors); concise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مختصر (Urdu) (page history and authors); concise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concise (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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