different between comprehensive vs succinct

English

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French compréhensif, from Late Latin comprehensivus, from Latin comprehendo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.p???h?n.s?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??m.p???h?n.s?v/
• Hyphenation: com?pre?hen?sive

Adjective

comprehensive (comparative more comprehensive, superlative most comprehensive)

1. Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.

Synonyms

• (broadly or completely covering): exhaustive, thorough, all-encompassing

Derived terms

• comprehensively
• comprehensivization
• comprehensivize

Related terms

• comprehend
• comprehensible
• comprehension

Translations

Noun

comprehensive (plural comprehensives)

1. (Britain) A comprehensive school.

Latin

Adjective

compreh?ns?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of compreh?ns?vus

English

Etymology

From Middle English succinte, succynt, from Old French succinct, from Latin succinctus, perfect passive participle of succing? (“gird from below”), from sub + cing? (“gird, wrap, surround”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?(k)?s??kt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?k?s??(k)t/
• Hyphenation: suc?cinct

Adjective

succinct (comparative more succinct, superlative most succinct)

1. brief and to the point
2. compressed into a tiny area.

   Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.

3. (archaic) wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.

Synonyms

• concise
• laconic
• See also Thesaurus:concise

Derived terms

• succinctness
• succinctly

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syk.s??/

Adjective

succinct (feminine singular succincte, masculine plural succincts, feminine plural succinctes)

1. succinct
2. (informal, figuratively) light

3. (by extension) Concise in its intentions.