compendious

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9 mentions 1 recordings first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago ↑9 vs the 6 months before

Adjective meaning comprehensive and concise in language usage

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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 2:06 · 2d ago
…Today, however, Compendious asserts comprehensiveness typically without brevity.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 1:42 · 2d ago
…But Webster's Compendious Dictionary was no more than a preparation for his two-volume An American Dictionary of the English language from 1828, and Compendious traces back to the Latin adjective compendiosus, meaning both comprehensive and succinct.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 1:30 · 2d ago
…This may come as a surprise given that compendious is now most often used to mean comprehensive, and is applied to books or published…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 1:14 · 2d ago
…When Noah Webster titled his first dictionary published in eighteen……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 0:52 · 2d ago
…For much of a career that spanned decades, he pursued……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 0:30 · 2d ago
…Similarly, a person might be said to have compendious knowledge……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · compendious · 0:22 · 2d ago
…A compendious book, research paper, or article is one that……
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