Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Conciseness

Nouns
  • conciseness etc. adj.
  • brevity, the soul of wit, " laconism
  • Tacitus
  • ellipsis
  • syncope
  • abridgment etc. (shortening) Shortness
  • compression etc. Contraction
  • epitome etc. Compendium
  • monostich
  • brunch word, portmanteau word.
Verbs
Adjectives
  • concise, brief, short, terse, close
  • to the point, exact
  • neat, compact
  • compressed, condensed, pointed
  • laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary
  • pregnant
  • compendious etc. (compendium) Compendium
  • succinct
  • elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp
  • sententious.
Adverbs
  • concisely etc. adj.
  • briefly, summarily
  • in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words
  • for shortness sake
  • to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief
  • it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.