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say it: suhk-SINGKT
succinct is an adjective meaning "briefly giving the gist of something". It is pronounced /səkˈsɪŋkt/ — suhk-SINGKT. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for succinct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.