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   com·pen·di·ous

   /kəmˈpendēəs/

   adjective

   • 1. containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way: formal "a compendious study"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus ‘advantageous, brief’, from compendium ‘profit, saving, abbreviation’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. compendiously adverb
   • 2. compendiousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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