Succinct

/səkˈsɪŋ(k)t/ · adjective

Meaning

Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly..

Definitions by Sense

1. Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
2. Of clothes: not loose; close-fitting, tight-fitting.
3. Compressed into a small area; compact.
4. Of an action, etc.: lasting a short time; brief, curt.
5. Of speech or writing: brief and to the point; concise.
6. (obsolete) Synonym of succinctly (“briefly, concisely”).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: bundled up, cinched, engirdled, girdled

The Tovvne is moſt beautified, by a vaſt Garden of the Kings, ſuccinct vvith a great tovvred mud-vvall, larger than the Circuit of the Citie.

Svvift to the hall they haſte; aſide they lay / Their garments, and ſuccinct, the victims [animals] ſlay.

Placid her pose, the calm of energy; / And over her broad brow in many a round / (That loosened would have gilt her garment's hem), / Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound / In lustrous coils, a natural diadem.

[W]ings he vvore / Of many a colourd plume ſprinkl'd vvith Gold, / His habit fit for ſpeed ſuccinct, and held / Before his decent ſteps a Silver vvand.

Four Knaves in garbs ſuccinct, a truſty band, / Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand; […]

During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.

[S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.

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Word Forms

• more succinct
• succincter
• most succinct
• succinctest

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