compendious
adjEtymology From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.
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containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
- AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:
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briefly describing a body of knowledge
- Derived terms
- compendiously, compendiousness, incompendious, uncompendious
- Related terms
- compendium, compendia