Adjective: concise
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more concise |
| Superlative | most concise |
Sample Sentences
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This, however, must refer solely to the length; unfortunately they were far too broad in proportion (the fault I have always observed in them). This directly gives a slightly hoofish look, as in the concise Chinese feet. [1856, Lady Emmeline Charlotte E. Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, page 56:]
Adjectives inflected like concise
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin concīsus (“cut short”), from concīdere (“cut to pieces”), from caedēre (“to cut, to strike down”).
Verbs referencing "concise"
Swedish Adjectives
koncis.