"succinct" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /səkˈsɪŋkt/, /səˈsɪŋkt/ Audio: en-us-succinct.ogg Forms: more succinct [comparative], most succinct [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪŋkt Etymology: From Middle English succinte, succynt, from Old French succinct, from Latin succinctus, perfect passive participle of succingō (“gird from below”), from sub + cingō (“gird, wrap, surround”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|succinte}} Middle English succinte, {{der|en|fro|succinct}} Old French succinct, {{der|en|la|succinctus}} Latin succinctus Head templates: {{en-adj}} succinct (comparative more succinct, superlative most succinct)
  1. Brief and to the point. Synonyms: concise, laconic, concise Translations (brief and to the point): սեղմ (seġm) (Armenian), кратък (kratǎk) (Bulgarian), сбит (sbit) (Bulgarian), succint (Catalan), 簡潔的 (Chinese Mandarin), 简洁的 (jiǎnjié de) (Chinese Mandarin), 簡明的 (Chinese Mandarin), 简明的 (jiǎnmíng de) (Chinese Mandarin), stručný [masculine] (Czech), koncis, fyndig (Danish), bondig (Dutch), ytimekäs (Finnish), succinct (French), bündig (German), knapp (German), kurz (German), lapidar (German), prägnant (German), λακωνικός (lakonikós) [masculine] (Greek), συνοπτικός (synoptikós) [masculine] (Greek), tömör (Hungarian), velős (Hungarian), 簡潔な (kanketsu na) (alt: かんけつな) (Japanese), қысқаша (qysqaşa) (Kazakh), succinctus (Latin), содр́жаен (sodŕžaen) [masculine] (Macedonian), кра́ток (krátok) [masculine] (Macedonian), зби́ен (zbíen) (Macedonian), ко́нцизен (kóncizen) [masculine] (Macedonian), ла́конски (lákonski) (Macedonian), konsis (Norwegian), موجز (mujez) (Persian), مختصر و مفید (moxtasar o mofid) (Persian), zwięzły (Polish), treściwy (Polish), sucinto (Portuguese), кра́ткий (krátkij) (Russian), ёмкий (jómkij) (Russian), лаконичный (lakoničnyj) (Russian), sucinto (Spanish), koncis (Swedish), 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), mücmel [dated] (Turkish), muhtasar [dated] (Turkish), özlü (Turkish), veciz (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-succinct-en-adj-ylD6RhH7 Disambiguation of 'brief and to the point': 98 1 1
  2. Compressed into a tiny area. Translations (compressed into a tiny area): компактен (kompakten) (Bulgarian), zhuštěný [masculine] (Czech), compact (Dutch), tiivis (Finnish), kompakt (German), сжа́тый (sžátyj) (Russian), sıkı (Turkish), yoğun (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-succinct-en-adj-cOdTcXYy Disambiguation of 'compressed into a tiny area': 1 98 1
  3. (archaic) Wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly. Tags: archaic
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: succinctness, succinctly

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "roman": "bsdus pa",
          "sense": "brief and to the point",
          "word": "བསྡུས་པ"
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          "roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
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      "word": "սեղմ"
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      "word": "簡潔的"
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      "word": "bondig"
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      "word": "succinct"
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      "word": "bündig"
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      "sense": "brief and to the point",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "brief and to the point",
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      "sense": "brief and to the point",
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "bsdus pa",
      "sense": "brief and to the point",
      "word": "བསྡུས་པ"
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
      "sense": "brief and to the point",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "tshig nyung don tshang",
      "sense": "brief and to the point",
      "word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "brief and to the point",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "mücmel"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "özlü"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "kompakten",
      "sense": "compressed into a tiny area",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "word": "zhuštěný"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "compact"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "compressed into a tiny area",
      "word": "tiivis"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "compressed into a tiny area",
      "word": "kompakt"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "sžátyj",
      "sense": "compressed into a tiny area",
      "word": "сжа́тый"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "compressed into a tiny area",
      "word": "sıkı"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "yoğun"
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