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succinct

/suhk-singkt/US // səkˈsɪŋkt //UK // (səkˈsɪŋkt) //

简明扼要,简明扼要的,简明,简练的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : expressed in few words; concise; terse.
    • : characterized by conciseness or verbal brevity.
    • : compressed into a small area, scope, or compass.
    • : Archaic. drawn up, as by a girdle.close-fitting. encircled, as by a girdle.

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Examples

  • “No,” was Belichick’s succinct response when reporters asked him about it.

  • Sara may be the best writer I have ever worked with – so crisp and succinct.

  • Data stories are succinct materials that boost the problem-solving process and improve productivity.

  • In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.

  • The scenes are succinct, by and large; the patter of the characters rolls right along, whether you catch their drift or not.

  • Her few comments to the press included a succinct summary of her views on capital punishment.

  • Her verdict was succinct: “They are not clothes for playing in, they are clothes for showing off at the airport.”

  • Then, a succinct slaying of the awful "We Built That" meme which so awkwardly defined the convention in Tampa.

  • He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

  • The tone of polite gravity is gone; what remains is less succinct, but more specific, and in its way effective.

  • You might almost as well read dictionaries with a hope of getting a succinct and clear view of language.

  • Puccini has, indeed, an almost unparalleled capacity for a kind of orchestral commentary which is both forceful and succinct.

  • I do not know where to look for so animated and succinct a rendering of that phase of past theatrical life.