COMPENDIOUS meaning: Concise and comprehensive; succinctly summarized

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word compendious:

General (20 matching dictionaries)

compendious: Merriam-Webster
compendious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
compendious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
compendious: Collins English Dictionary
compendious: Vocabulary.com
Compendious, compendious: Wordnik
compendious: Wiktionary
compendious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
compendious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
compendious: Infoplease Dictionary
Compendious, compendious: Dictionary.com
Compendious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
compendious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
compendious: Rhymezone
Compendious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
compendious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
compendious: FreeDictionary.org
compendious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
compendious: Mnemonic Dictionary
compendious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

compendious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

compendious: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compendious)

▸ adjective: containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
▸ adjective: briefly describing a body of knowledge

Opposite:

prolix, verbose, long-winded, long-drawn-out

Types:

brief, concise, succinct, terse, more...

Phrases:

The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, more...

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