compendious

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
    — AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.
  2. briefly describing a body of knowledge

词形变化

more compendious comparative most compendious superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
compendiously compendiousness incompendious uncompendious
相关词
compendium compendia

词源

From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.
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