Word Meanings - BRIEF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak. 2. Concise; terse; succinct. The brief style is that which expresseth much in little. B. Jonson. 3. Rife; common; prevalent. In brief. See under Brief, Syn. -- Short; concise; succinct;

Additional info about word: BRIEF

1. Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak. 2. Concise; terse; succinct. The brief style is that which expresseth much in little. B. Jonson. 3. Rife; common; prevalent. In brief. See under Brief, Syn. -- Short; concise; succinct; summary; compendious; condensed; terse; curt; transistory; short-lived.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRIEF)

• Compendious
• Condensed
• concentrated
• brief
• short
• succinct
• concise
• abridged
• commodious
• convenient
• useful
• handy
• comprehensive
• compact
• Concise
• terse
• pregnant
• expressive
• pointed
• neat
• compendious
• summary
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• trivial
• illiberal
• mean
• petty
• paltry
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Succinct
• Brief
• close
• condensed
• Summary
• offhand
• decisive
• quick
• sharp
• unceremonious
• informal
• rapid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BRIEF)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to BRIEF)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• TERSE
  1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. 2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. "Your polite and terse gallants."
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.