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Definition of Concise

Concise

  1. Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

Concise Quotations

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!
Twyla Tharp

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.
Jan Brewer

Cinema is incredibly concise.
Yann Martel
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Concise Translations

concise in Dutch is beknopt, kernachtig, kort, bondig
concise in French is concis
concise in Italian is breve
concise in Latin is concisus
concise in Norwegian is kortfattet, konsis
concise in Portuguese is conciso
concise in Spanish is conciso

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