compendious Play adjectiveContaining or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way. SYNONYMS abbreviatedabridgedabstractedaphoristicbriefcompactcompressedconcisecondensedcontractedcrispepigrammaticgnomicin a few well-chosen wordsin a nutshelllapidarypithypottedshort and sweetshort and to the pointshortenedsnappysuccinctsummarizedsummarysynopticthumbnail