succinct
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English succinte, succynt (“having one’s waist encircled with something, girdled; brief, concise, succinct”), borrowed from Old French succinct (modern French succinct), or directly from its etymon Latin succīnctus (“belted, girdled; enclosed or tightly wrapped; (figurative) concise, succinct; etc.”), the perfect passive participle of succingō (“to gather or tuck up with a belt, etc.”), from suc- (a variant of sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upó (“from below; up”)) + cingō (“to encircle, surround; to gird”) (further etymology uncertain).
The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: more succinct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: succincter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
uncommon
form: most succinct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: succinctest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Near-synonyms: bundled up, cinched, engirdled, girdled
The Tovvne is moſt beautified, by a vaſt Garden of the Kings, ſuccinct vvith a great tovvred mud-vvall, larger than the Circuit of the Citie.
Svvift to the hall they haſte; aſide they lay / Their garments, and ſuccinct, the victims [animals] ſlay.
Placid her pose, the calm of energy; / And over her broad brow in many a round / (That loosened would have gilt her garment's hem), / Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound / In lustrous coils, a natural diadem.
gloss: Encircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
broadly
gloss: Of clothes: not loose; close-fitting, tight-fitting.
pos: adj
tags: also
archaic
poetic
examples: [W]ings he vvore / Of many a colourd plume ſprinkl'd vvith Gold, / His habit fit for ſpeed ſuccinct, and held / Before his decent ſteps a Silver vvand.
Four Knaves in garbs ſuccinct, a truſty band, / Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand; […]
During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.
[S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.
gloss: Compressed into a small area; compact.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.
The admirable and inimitable feature of Man, ſupplied and adorned vvith the innumerable teſtimonies of a Deitie: inſomuch, that not vvithout great cauſe hee is ſtiled a little and ſuccinct vvorld vvithin himſelfe; in vvhom there is a perſpicuous knovvledge to diſtinguiſh good from euill, vvhich is the rule by vvhich to direct all the neceſſarie actions of humane life: […]
Their poor bits of preciosities and heirlooms they have with them; made up in succinct bundles, stowed on ticketed baggage-wains: […]
To stay a square-rigged ship is an affair of knowledge and swift sight: and a man used to the succinct evolutions of a schooner will always tend to be too hasty with a brig.
gloss: Of an action, etc.: lasting a short time; brief, curt.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Then ſuddenly, and vvith a ſuccinct bovv, bidding them all good bye, he took a haſty leave; […]
With the rope round their neck, their destiny may be succinct!
From a little behind, with his Sunday hat tilted forward over his brow and a cigar glowing between his lips, Captain Nares acknowledged our previous acquaintance with a succinct nod.
gloss: Of speech or writing: brief and to the point; concise.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.
[…] Apollo himſelfe loveth brevitie, and is in his oracles verie ſuccinct and pithy; […]
A ſtrict and ſuccinct ſtyle is that, vvhere you can take avvay nothing vvithout loſſe, and that loſſe to be manifeſt.
[T]he Saxon Annaliſt vvont to be ſober and ſuccinct, […] runs on a ſudden into ſuch extravagant fanſies and metaphors, as bare him quite beſide the ſcope of being underſtood.
But I must grow more succinct, and, as a Spectator, give an account of this extraordinary man, who, in his way, never had an equal in any age before him or in that wherein he lived.
In the beginning of the ſixteenth century, John Major and Hector Boethius publiſhed their hiſtories of Scotland, the former a ſuccinct and dry vvriter, the latter a copious and florid one, and both equally credulous.
A tale ſhould be judicious, clear, ſuccinct, / The language plain, and incidents vvell-link'd, / Tell not as nevv vvhat ev'ry body knovvs, / And nevv or old, ſtill haſten to a cloſe, […]
Arthur Duck, another Englishman, has been praised even by foreigners, for a succinct and learned, though elementary and popular, treatise on the use and authority of the civil law in different countries of Europe.
But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.
Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.
The Derby Carriage Works foreman, when informed that this coach was to be run at 90 m.p.h. to obtain information on bogie hunting, is reported to have offered one succinct word of advice—"Don't!"
Here, in the succinctest terms, was expressed the true motive behind the establishment of villages. Herding the natives into centres, the government further centralized its own power.
He specifically told the class he wants succinct answers on exams (as opposed to bullshit), and answers don't get any succincter than the ones I gave.
Related words: succinctorium
succinctory
succincture
Derived words: succinctly
succinctness
unsuccinct
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: sidottu
lang: Finnish
word: vyötetty
lang: Latin
word: succīnctus