[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compendious \compen"dious\, a. l. compendiosus.
   containing the substance or general principles of a subject
   or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.
   1913 webster

         more compendious and expeditious ways.   --woodward.
   1913 webster

         three things be required in the oration of a man having
         authority -- that it be compendious, sententious, and
         delectable.                              --sir t.
                                                  elyot.

   syn: short; summary; abridged; condensed; comprehensive;
        succinct; brief; concise.
        1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compendious
     adj : briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and
           compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and
           pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation
           of a wide-ranging subject" syn: compact, succinct,
            summary
see also:
compact succinct summary 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "compendious":
   spartan, abbreviated, abridged, across-the-board,
   all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, aposiopestic, blanket, brief,
   brusque, clipped, close, compact, complete, comprehensive,
   compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, curtal,
   curtate, cut, decurtate, docked, elliptic, encyclopedic,
   epigrammatic, global, gnomic, instantaneous, laconic, little, low,
   omnibus, over-all, panoramic, pithy, pointed, pruned, reserved,
   sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, succinct, summary,
   sweeping, synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, terse, tight,
   to the point, total, transient, truncated, universal, whole,
   without exception, without omission

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