succinct
IPA: sʌksˈɪŋkt
adjective
- Brief and to the point.
- Compressed into a tiny area.
- (archaic) Wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.
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Examples of "succinct" in Sentences
- It's more succinct and to the point.
- The greeting is customarily succinct.
- They value clarity and succinctness, perhaps.
- But the use of the word 'succinct' seems fine.
- The wording is concise, succinct and to the point.
- Be succinct and focus on the content of the article.
- It is completely lacking in clarity or succinctness.
- A page such as this gains from brevity and succinctness.
- The lead should be a succinct summary of the entire article.
- The template would contain a succinct summary of the article.
- ROBERTS: The word succinct I don't think exists in his vocabulary.
- That's the kind of succinct, loopily brilliant imagery that peppers every Tom Waits song.
- "clear", never "succinct" - his painful dictation methods representing the very antithesis of
- “Succinct but grumbly”–well, it’s not often I’m called succinct, but there’s another possible epitaph.
- Jerm is the veteran MC who knows how to ride a beat in succinct or elongated fashion depending on what’s required.
- Glad if anything I said helped, though I'm sorry for the 3,274 mile long comment... too tired to find the "succinct" setting on my brain.
- Cindy Davis ticked off the hurdles that Biden had cleared: he had been "succinct" and had not been "condescending"; Palin, by contrast, struck Davis as "reckless" and "shallow."
- O'Donnell says his show will attempt to offer a "succinct" summary on the day's events, and may even rip up the planned show to react to news that may get made on news programs earlier in the evening, an interview on
- Hanson at every turn cheapened the past by turning it into a little America, complete with a ridiculous parody of al Qaeda and the USSR mixed together in generous portions, putting in the mouths of people who were so short on words we continue to call succinct speakers by their name grand speeches in favor of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
- It’s rather a useless exercise to try to compare the poet memoirist’s distinct writing styles, but interesting to note how his or her prose is influenced by his or her poetic sensibilities: Orr and Ríos wrote their memoirs in succinct imagistic vignettes, Rekdal and Mora in episodic event-driven chapters, and Doty and Hoffman weave multiple intricate and reflective threads into their complex storytelling.
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