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Etymology

Etymology tree

English concise

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English concisely

From concise + -ly.

Adverb

concisely (comparative more concisely, superlative most concisely)

1. In a concise manner, briefly, without excessive length.
   • 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2026:

     He concisely explains that Whig histories tend to "praise revolutions [for history of science, we could read novelties, ideas or individuals] provided they have been successful, emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present".

Synonyms

• (in a concise manner): in summarization, briefly, summarily, in short, in a word, to sum up

Translations

in a concise manner

• Catalan: concisament (ca)
• Finnish: ytimekkäästi (fi), lyhytsanaisesti
• French: concisément (fr)
• Galician: concisamente
• German: prägnant (de), bündig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: συντόμως (suntómōs)

• Hindi: संक्षिप्त (hi) (saṅkṣipt), संक्षेपतः (saṅkṣeptaḥ)
• Italian: concisamente (it), brevemente (it), succintamente (it), chiaramente (it), puntualmente (it), sinteticamente (it)
• Latin: astrictē
• Portuguese: concisamente
• Russian: кра́тко (ru) (krátko), сжа́то (ru) (sžáto), лакони́чно (ru) (lakoníčno), ёмко (ru) (jómko)
• Spanish: concisamente
• Swedish: koncist (sv)