concise
Adjective
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Expressing much in few words (synset 300548866)
"a concise explanation"also: taciturn - habitually reserved and uncommunicativesimilar to:
- aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic - terse and witty and like a maxim
- brief - concise and succinct
- compact, compendious, succinct, summary - briefly giving the gist of something
- crisp, curt, laconic, terse - brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- cryptic - having a puzzling terseness
- elliptic, elliptical - characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
- pithy, sententious - concise and full of meaning
- telegraphic - having the style of a telegram with many short words left out
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