compendious

English

Etymology

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.

Adjective

compendious (comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious)

1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s.
     This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.

2. briefly describing a body of knowledge

Related terms

• compendium
• compendia

Translations

containing a subset of words

• Bulgarian: сбит (bg) (sbit), съкратен (bg) (sǎkraten)
• Russian: кра́ткий (ru) m (krátkij), сжа́тый (ru) m (sžátyj)

briefly describing a body of knowledge

References

• “compendious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• pseudomonic