compactly

1. 1.

   in a compact manner or state

   “The children were packed compactly into the car”
2. 2.

   with concise and precise brevity; to the point

   “Please state your case as succinctly as possible”

   “he wrote compactly but clearly”

   Synonymssuccinctly
3. 3.

   taking up no more space than necessary

   “liquid food compactly stored in a pressurized tank”

Questions about compactly

What does compactly mean?

compactly means "in a compact manner or state". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compactly?

compactly has 3 syllables: com-pact-ly. The stress falls on "com".

What is another word for compactly?

Close synonyms include succinctly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compactly a common word?

compactly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.