N. shortness,
brevity, littleness, a span,
shortening,
abbreviation,
abbreviature,
abridgment,
concision,
retrenchment,
curtailment, decurtation|, reduction,
epitome,
elision,
ellipsis,
conciseness,
abridger,
epitomist,
epitomizer V. be short, render short,
shorten,
curtail,
abridge,
abbreviate, take in, reduce,
compress,
epitomize,
retrench, cut short,
obtruncate,
scrimp, cut, chop up,
hack,
hew, cut down, pare down,
clip,
dock,
lop,
prune,
shear,
shave,
mow,
reap, crop,
snub,
truncate,
pollard,
stunt,
nip, check the growth of,
foreshorten Adj. short, brief,
curt,
compendious, compact,
stubby,
scrimp,
shorn,
stubbed,
stumpy,
thickset,
pug,
chunky, decurtate,
retrousse,
stocky,
squab,
squabby,
squat,
dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by,
oblate,
concise, summary
Adv. shortly, in short
N. conciseness,
brevity, "the soul of wit",
laconism,
tacitus,
ellipsis,
syncope,
abridgment, compression,
epitome,
monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word
Adj. concise, brief, short,
terse, close, to the point, exact,
neat, compact, compressed,
condensed, pointed,
laconic,
curt,
pithy,
trenchant, summary,
pregnant,
compendious,
succinct,
elliptical,
epigrammatic,
quaint,
crisp,
sententious Adv. concisely, briefly,
summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio
N. compend,
compendium, abstract,
precis,
epitome, multum in parvo, analysis,
pandect,
digest, sum and substance, brief,
abridgment, summary, apercu,
draft, minute, note,
excerpt,
synopsis, textbook,
conspectus, outlines,
syllabus, contents, heads,
prospectus,
album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers,
anthology,
collectanea,
analecta,
compilation,
recapitulation,
resume, review,
abbreviation,
abbreviature, contraction,
shortening, compression
V. abridge, abstract,
epitomize,
summarize, make an abstract, prepare an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract,
recapitulate, review,
skim, run over, sum up,
abbreviate,
condense,
compile Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words
Phr. it lies in a nutshell
