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succinctly en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /səˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/
• /sʌkˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English succinct Middle English -ly English -ly English succinctly From succinct + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a succinct manner, concisely.
   • ["]Who is he?" "He is Tom," replied Ajor succinctly. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
   • With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick. 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XLIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
   • My companion smiled approvingly. “You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well,” he said. 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter IV (What John Rance had to Tell), page 26:

Forms

Antonyms

unsuccinctly

Synonyms

succinct

Translations (10)

es sucintamente (in a succinct manner) · pt sucintamente (in a succinct manner) · ca succintament (in a succinct manner) · la succincte (in a succinct manner) · tr kısa (in a succinct manner) · nl bondig (in a succinct manner) · tr muhtasar (in a succinct manner) · mk содр́жајно (in a succinct manner) · tr öz (in a succinct manner) · sv koncist (in a succinct manner)