Compendious

Word COMPENDIOUS
Character 11
Hyphenation com pen di ous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Compendious"

What do we mean by compendious?

Containing or stating briefly all the essentials of something; comprehensive and concise. adjective

Containing the substance or general principles of a subject in a narrow compass; short; abridged; concise: as, a compendious system of chemistry; a compendious grammar.

Narrow; limited.

Short; direct; not circuitous.

Synonyms Succinct, Summary, etc. See concise.

Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. adjective

Containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized adjective

Briefly describing a body of knowledge adjective

Briefly giving the gist of something adjective

Containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized

Briefly describing a body of knowledge

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The word "compendious" in example sentences

He got this tree up, shortened the stem, shaped the root, shod the point with some of his late old iron; and with this primitive tool, and a thick stake baked at the point, he opened the ground to receive twelve stout uprights, and he drove them with a tremendous mallet made upon what might be called the compendious or Hazelian method; it was a section of a hard tree with a thick shoot growing out of it, which shoot, being shortened, served for the handle. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

These amounted to a compendious accounting for the possessions of most if not all squatters on the entire length of territory stretching east of Melbourne and from the Murray to Bass Strait, and all three parties to the Loughnan affair were listed, viz.No. 24. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's also known for his compendious technical knowledge and his tactical sophistication and willingness to question orthodoxies, qualities he's demonstrated as an insightful newspaper columnist. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

Wendy Doniger's compendious account of religious traditions that constitute an "ism" only in the broadest possible sense begins with an account of being egg-pelted by one such hardliner who objected to her suggestion that some Sanskrit texts are interested in divine female sexuality. ❋ Priyamvada Gopal (2010)

'Magnum Contact Sheets' Thames & Hudson, 508 pages, $150 , a compendious record of these deliberations spanning nine decades, attests to the decisions and revisions that produce definitive images. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If so, Mr. Romney self-administered the follow-up inoculation by throwing out that he probably pays, oh, 15% of his compendious income in taxes. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2012)

So began an on-again/off-again romance fully charted in this compendious collection of Marcus's occasional writings on his hero. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The movie also sketches in the five-year-long, globe-girdling voyage during which he collected the compendious data for his book, along with much peripheral information about his health (wretched), his relationship with his devoutly religious wife (strained) and his apparently never-ending connection to his dead 10-year-old daughter (feverish). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But then he was always correct in his compendious rememberings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Children's Games is the title of the work, conjuring Pieter Bruegel's great painting of the same name, and there are traces here of the Flemish painter's compendious humour and spirit, just as there is something of Magritte in the queer scenarios of Alÿs's little paintings. ❋ Laura Cummings (2010)

Emily Howell has a compendious memory that involves an intimate understanding of the works of 36 composers "starting with Palestrina, [an Italian court musician of the 16th century] and ending with David Cope in the 21st century". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or duh, compendious doesn't mean comprehensive at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course we already possess, in the faculty of memory, the gift of time travel, whereby the merest waft of a certain perfume can take us back to a specific date in our youth, in which we follow Proust who, in his compendious In Search of Lost Time, derived a million words of recollection from a single taste of madeleine. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

For anyone who feels Ninja Tune has lost its edge of late, this is a compendious and compelling argument to the contrary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hearing was a follow-up to a lengthy investigation of health insurers that had recently been summarized in a compendious House report. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Enter: Nick Baker, the brilliant mischief-making novelist of Vox and Fermata, the compendious historian in Human Smoke of 20th Century weapons of mass destruction, and also the Kindle commentator in The New Yorker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two sturdy volumes have recently arrived from Oxford, setting out under greater scrutiny Selden's compendious life and work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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