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形容詞

compendious (comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious)

1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     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

派生語

関連する語

• compendium
• compendia

参照

• “compendious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• pseudomonic