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condensed
CIDE DICTIONARY
condensed, adj.
- representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol; as, a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas. [WordNet 1.5]
- shortened by rewriting with fewer words; -- used of texts; as, a condensed book. Opposite of
unabridged . [WordNet 1.5] - reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, condensed milk. Opposite of
uncondensed . [WordNet 1.5] - narrower than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type. Opposite of
expanded . [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
condensed
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, bobtail, bobtailed, brief, brusque, canned, capsule, capsulized, clamped, clipped, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted, compendious, compressed, concentrated, concise, concrete, congested, consolidated, constricted, contracted, crammed, crammed full, cramped, crisp, cropped, crowded, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, dense, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, firm, gluey, gnomic, hard, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, jam-packed, jammed, knitted, laconic, massive, mowed, mown, nipped, nonporous, packed, pinched, pinched-in, pithy, pocket, pointed, pollard, polled, potted, pruned, puckered, pursed, reaped, reserved, sententious, serried, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, solid, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated, substantial, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, thick, thick-growing, thickset, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated, viscid, viscose, viscous, wasp-waisted, wrinkledROGET THESAURUS
condensed
Conciseness
N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, 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, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.For further exploring for "condensed" in Webster Dictionary Online
