How do you use the word "succinct" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "succinct" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "succinct": This summary is too succinct; it needs further elaboration to make it understandable. The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.

Succinct Meaning

/səkˈsɪŋ(k)t/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjBrief and to the point.

adjEncircled by, or as if by, a girdle; drawn up or wrapped tightly.

Sentence Examples

This summary is too succinct; it needs further elaboration to make it understandable.

The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

summary concise compact

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The teacher prefers a ____ answer that uses only a few clear words.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The manager gave a ____ summary of the project's progress, focusing only on the most important points.

Word Origin & History

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English succinte, succynt (“having one’s waist encircled with something, girdled; brief, concise, succinct”), borrowed from Old French succinct (modern French succinct), or directly from its etymon Latin succīnctus (“belted, girdled; enclosed or tightly wrapped; (figurative) concise, succinct; etc.”), the perfect passive participle of succingō (“to gather or tuck up with a belt, etc.”), from suc- (a variant of sub- (prefix meaning ‘under’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upó (“from below; up”)) + cingō (“to encircle, surround; to gird”) (further etymology uncertain). The adverb is derived from the adjective.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The Tovvne is moſt beautified, by a vaſt Garden of the Kings, ſuccinct vvith a great tovvred mud-vvall, larger than the Circuit of the Citie." — 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “Tyroan”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 115:

"Svvift to the hall they haſte; aſide they lay / Their garments, and ſuccinct, the victims [animals] ſlay." — 1726, Homer, “Book XVII”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume IV, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 116, lines 199–200:

"Placid her pose, the calm of energy; / And over her broad brow in many a round / (That loosened would have gilt her garment's hem), / Succinct, as toil prescribes, the hair was wound / In lustrous coils, a natural diadem." — 1876 December, James Russell Lowell, “An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876”, in Three Memorial Poems, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1877, →OCLC, canto I, page 72:

"[W]ings he vvore / Of many a colourd plume ſprinkl'd vvith Gold, / His habit fit for ſpeed ſuccinct, and held / Before his decent ſteps a Silver vvand." — 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature L, recto, lines 651–654:

"Four Knaves in garbs ſuccinct, a truſty band, / Caps on their heads, and halberds in their hand; […]" — 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto III, page 140:

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