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compendious a. 扼要的,简明的 扼要的,简明的 compendious adj 1: briefly giving the gist of something; " a short and compendious book"; " a compact style is brief and pithy"; " succinct comparisons"; " a summary formulation of a wide- ranging subject" [ synonym: { compendious}, { compact}, { succinct}, { summary}] Compendious \ Com* pen" di* ous\, a. [ L. compendiosus.] Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. [ 1913 Webster] More compendious and expeditious ways. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and delectable. -- Sir T. Elyot. Syn: Short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive; succinct; brief; concise. [ 1913 Webster] 62 Moby Thesaurus words for " compendious": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, across- the- board, all- comprehensive, all- inclusive, aposiopestic, blanket, brief, brusque, clipped, close, compact, complete, comprehensive, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, curtal, curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic, encyclopedic, epigrammatic, global, gnomic, instantaneous, laconic, little, low, omnibus, over- all, panoramic, pithy, pointed, pruned, reserved, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct, summary, sweeping, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, total, transient, truncated, universal, whole, without exception, without omission
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