compendious

1. 1.

   briefly giving the gist of something

   “a short and compendious book”

   “a compact style is brief and pithy”

   “succinct comparisons”

   “a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject”

   Synonymscompactsuccinctsummary

   Similarconcise

Questions about compendious

What does compendious mean?

compendious means "briefly giving the gist of something".

How many syllables are in compendious?

compendious has 4 syllables: com-pen-di-ous. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for compendious?

Close synonyms include compact, succinct, summary. 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 compendious a common word?

compendious 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.