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compendious
adjective
(com-pen-di-ous)
briefly giving the gist of something
Synonyms:
compact
,
succinct
,
summary
,
Examples:
A short and compendious book.
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essayistic
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epigrammatic
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monographic
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philological
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descriptive
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erudite
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readable
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biographical
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exegetical
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perspicuous
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musicological
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midrashic
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overdetermined
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novelistic
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nonliterary
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jamesian
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epigraphic
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scholarly
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whiggish
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unsensational
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treasurable
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copperplate
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anthropologic
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magisterial
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unembellished
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anthropological
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autobiographic
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diagrammatic
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filmable
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poetic
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typological
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anthological
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textual
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sherlockian
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terminological
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latinate
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proustian
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hemingwayesque
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writerly
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epistolary
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compendious
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