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say it: suhk-SINGKT
succinct is an adjective meaning "briefly giving the gist of something". 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.