Meanings
comparative more succinctly · superlative most succinctly
- In a succinct manner, concisely.
["]Who is he?" "He is Tom," replied Ajor succinctly.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC2 more examples
With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick.
1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XLIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLCMy companion smiled approvingly. “You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well,” he said.
1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter IV (What John Rance had to Tell), page 26Synonyms: succinct · Antonyms: unsuccinctly
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwith concise and precise brevity; to the point
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Origin
Translations
Catalan succintament
- succintamentin a succinct manner
Dutch bondig
- bondigin a succinct manner
Hindi संक्षिप्त, संक्षेपतः
- संक्षिप्त (saṅkṣipt)in a succinct manner
- संक्षेपतः (saṅkṣeptaḥ)in a succinct manner
Latin succincte
- succinctein a succinct manner
Portuguese sucintamente
- sucintamentein a succinct manner
Spanish sucintamente
- sucintamentein a succinct manner
Swedish koncist
- koncistin a succinct manner
Turkish kısa, muhtasar
- kısain a succinct manner
- muhtasarin a succinct manner
- özin a succinct manner
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