Definitions for compendious

compendious com·pen·di·ous

Spelling: [kuh m-pen-dee-uh s]
IPA: /kəmˈpɛn di əs/

Compendious is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 959 anagrams from letters in compendious (cdeimnoopsu).

Definitions for compendious

adjective

  1. of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise:

Origin of compendious

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Latin word compendiōsus. See compendium, -ous

Examples for compendious

David Frum on Allen Guelzo's compendious synthesis of new thinking about slavery and its aftermath.

Some 400 pages from and to him in the most compendious edition.

(1900-04), furnishes a compendious directory and discussion.

How does its beautiful simplicity also, and compendious brevity, give it rank before the laborious subtleties of Bellarmine!

It will be sufficient to cite one notorious and compendious example.

A native restaurant in its simplest and most compendious shape.

Leibnitz gave a compendious statement of his system in his Monadology .

It is the Cuban idea of a compendious and economic arrangement.

Let us diligently follow that, and be compendious with the remainder.

The ministry have realized the compendious ideas of Caligula.

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