concise

kun-SICEadj

Meaning giving all the needed information in few words

Memory hook con-SIZE: CUT TO SIZE. Zoe’s report ran three pages, so she cut it to size: one tight paragraph that still says it all. Now it is concise.

Her concise note said everything: “Pizza in the oven. Back at six.”

In context The first draft rambled on for ten pages, but the final report was concise: two pages that covered every key finding without a wasted word.

Similar brief, compact, succinct, to the point

Opposite wordy, long-winded, verbose

From Latin concisus, “cut short,” from concidere: con (thoroughly) + caedere (to cut).

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