Roget's Thesaurus

#572. Conciseness

Nouns

conciseness etc. adj.; brevity, the soul of wit, laconism; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment etc. (shortening) 201; compression etc. 195; epitome etc. 596; monostich; brunch word, portmanteau word.

Verbs

be concise etc. adj.; condense etc. 195; abridge etc. 201; abstract etc. 596; come to the point.

Adjectives

concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious etc. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Adverbs

concisely etc. adj.; 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.

Phrases

brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat.] [Horace].