"concise" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /kənˈsaɪs/ Audio: en-us-concise.ogg [US] Forms: more concise [comparative], most concise [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪs Etymology: From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kh₂eyd-}}, {{der|en|la|concīsus|t=cut short}} Latin concīsus (“cut short”), {{m|la|concido|concīdere|t=cut to pieces}} concīdere (“cut to pieces”), {{m|la|caedo|caedēre|t=to cut, to strike down}} caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)
  1. Brief, yet including all important information Synonyms: succinct, terse, concise Translations (brief and precise): beknopt (Afrikaans), وَجِيز (wajīz) (Arabic), مُوجَز (mūjaz) (Arabic), սեղմ (seġm) (Armenian), yığcam (Azerbaijani), müxtəsər (Azerbaijani), каро́ткі (karótki) (Belarusian), сці́слы (scísly) (Belarusian), лакані́чны (lakaníčny) (Belarusian), кра́тък (krátǎk) (Bulgarian), сте́гнат (stégnat) (Bulgarian), concís (Catalan), 簡明 (Chinese Mandarin), 简明 (jiǎnmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), stručný (Czech), koncis (Danish), beknopt (Dutch), bondig (Dutch), konciza (Esperanto), ytimekäs (Finnish), lyhytsanainen (Finnish), concis (French), conciso (Galician), მოკლე (moḳle) (Georgian), შემოკლებული (šemoḳlebuli) (Georgian), kurz (German), prägnant (German), knapp (German), konzis (German), bündig (German), gedrängt [figuratively] (German), σύντομος (sýntomos) (Greek), περιεκτικός (periektikós) (Greek), συνοπτικός (synoptikós) (Greek), λακωνικός (lakonikós) (Greek), תַמצִיתִי (tamtzity) (Hebrew), संक्षिप्त (saṅkṣipt) (Hindi), tömör (Hungarian), velős (Hungarian), achomair (Irish), conciso (Italian), 簡潔な (kanketsu na) (Japanese), 手短な (temijika na) (Japanese), succīnctus (Latin), astrictus (Latin), кра́ток (krátok) (Macedonian), зби́ен (zbíen) (Macedonian), сте́гнат (stégnat) (Macedonian), ла́конски (lákonski) (Macedonian), авсар (avsar) (Mongolian), konsis (Norwegian), مختصر (moxtasar) (Persian), zwięzły (Polish), lakoniczny (Polish), conciso (Portuguese), sucinto (Portuguese), кра́ткий (krátkij) (Russian), лакони́чный (lakoníčnyj) (Russian), pongail (Scottish Gaelic), sažet (Serbo-Croatian), conciso (Spanish), breve (Spanish), sucinto (Spanish), escueto (Spanish), koncis (Swedish), kortfattad (Swedish), กระชับ (Thai), བསྡུས་པ (bsdus pa) (Tibetan), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) (Tibetan), ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) (Tibetan), རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི (rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i) (Tibetan), mucez [obsolete, possibly] (Turkish), özlü (Turkish), коро́ткий (korótkyj) (Ukrainian), сти́слий (stýslyj) (Ukrainian), лаконі́чний (lakoníčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-concise-en-adj-q3Z9yUgk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 12 43 Disambiguation of 'brief and precise': 91 9
  2. (obsolete) Physically short or truncated Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-concise-en-adj-TU~dKToH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 12 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: concisely, conciseness, concision Related terms: taciturn, succinctness

Verb

IPA: /kənˈsaɪs/ Audio: en-us-concise.ogg [US] Forms: concises [present, singular, third-person], concising [participle, present], concised [participle, past], concised [past]
Rhymes: -aɪs Etymology: From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kh₂eyd-}}, {{der|en|la|concīsus|t=cut short}} Latin concīsus (“cut short”), {{m|la|concido|concīdere|t=cut to pieces}} concīdere (“cut to pieces”), {{m|la|caedo|caedēre|t=to cut, to strike down}} caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)
  1. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize. Tags: India, transitive
    Sense id: en-concise-en-verb-bcIZCe-L Categories (other): Indian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 12 43

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "word": "stručný"
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          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
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          "lang": "Galician",
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          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "word": "მოკლე"
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          "sense": "brief and precise",
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          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "bündig"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "sýntomos",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "σύντομος"
        },
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "periektikós",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "περιεκτικός"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "synoptikós",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "συνοπτικός"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
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          "sense": "brief and precise",
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "saṅkṣipt",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "संक्षिप्त"
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          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "tömör"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "velős"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "achomair"
        },
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "conciso"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kanketsu na",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "簡潔な"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "temijika na",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "手短な"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "succīnctus"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "astrictus"
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        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "krátok",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "кра́ток"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "zbíen",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "зби́ен"
        },
        {
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "stégnat",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "сте́гнат"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
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          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "lákonski",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "ла́конски"
        },
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          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "avsar",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "авсар"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "konsis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "moxtasar",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "مختصر"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "zwięzły"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "lakoniczny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "conciso"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "sucinto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "krátkij",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "кра́ткий"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lakoníčnyj",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "лакони́чный"
        },
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          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "pongail"
        },
        {
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "sažet"
        },
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "conciso"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "breve"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "sucinto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "escueto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "koncis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "kortfattad"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "กระชับ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "bsdus pa",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "བསྡུས་པ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "tshig nyung don tshang",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "tags": [
            "obsolete",
            "possibly"
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          "word": "mucez"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "özlü"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "korótkyj",
          "sense": "brief and precise",
          "word": "коро́ткий"
        },
        {
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "bsdus pa",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "བསྡུས་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "tshig nyung don tshang",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "rdog rtsa bsgril ba'i",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "རྡོག་རྩ་བསྒྲིལ་བའི"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "possibly"
      ],
      "word": "mucez"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "özlü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "korótkyj",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "коро́ткий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "stýslyj",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "сти́слий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lakoníčnyj",
      "sense": "brief and precise",
      "word": "лаконі́чний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "concise"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂eyd-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪs",
    "Rhymes:English/aɪs/2 syllables"
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        "2": "ine-pro",
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      "name": "root"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "concīsus",
        "t": "cut short"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin concīsus (“cut short”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "concido",
        "3": "concīdere",
        "t": "cut to pieces"
      },
      "expansion": "concīdere (“cut to pieces”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "caedo",
        "3": "caedēre",
        "t": "to cut, to strike down"
      },
      "expansion": "caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "concises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "concised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "concised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Indian English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make concise; to abridge or summarize."
      ],
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        [
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          "abridge"
        ],
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          "summarize",
          "summarize"
        ]
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        "(India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize."
      ],
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        "India",
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      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/kənˈsaɪs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪs"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-concise.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-concise.ogg/En-us-concise.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-concise.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "concise"
}

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