CONCISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concise mean? 

• CONCISE (adjective)
  The adjective CONCISE has 1 sense:

1. expressing much in few words

  Familiarity information: CONCISE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCISE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expressing much in few words

Context example:

a concise explanation

Similar:

aphoristic; apothegmatic; epigrammatic (terse and witty and like a maxim)

brief (concise and succinct)

compact; compendious; succinct; summary (briefly giving the gist of something)

crisp; curt; laconic; terse (brief and to the point; effectively cut short)

cryptic (having a puzzling terseness)

elliptic; elliptical (characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements)

pithy; sententious (concise and full of meaning)

telegraphic (having the style of a telegram with many short words left out)

Also:

taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

Attribute:

long-windedness; prolixity; prolixness; windiness; wordiness (boring verbosity)

Antonym:

prolix (tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length)

Derivation:

conciseness (terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words)

 Context examples 

It was short and concise: The old man is dead.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A concise, detailed, description record of cell specimen(s) or tissues for clinical and laboratory applications.

(Annotated Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

A concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol.

(Definition, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at 221B, Baker Street.’ That is clear and concise.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if he wrote to his father, no wonder he was concise.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I WILL be more collected—more concise.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The investigation, analysis and recognition of the presence and nature of disease, condition, or injury from expressed signs and symptoms; also, the scientific determination of any kind; the concise results of such an investigation.

(Diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)

I can hardly imagine the young man whom I saw talking with you the other day could express himself so well, if left quite to his own powers, and yet it is not the style of a woman; no, certainly, it is too strong and concise; not diffuse enough for a woman.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A short dialogue on the subject of the country ensued, on either side calm and concise—and soon put an end to by the entrance of Charlotte and her sister, just returned from her walk.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My charge would be much more concise than her's, and probably not much in the same spirit; all that I have to recommend being comprised in, do not spoil them, and do not physic them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)