different between dextrous vs concise

English

Etymology

See dexterous.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kst??s

Adjective

dextrous (comparative more dextrous, superlative most dextrous)

1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of dexterous.
   • 1754, Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier, The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable, Volume 1, page 189,

     The man, who with his right hand (or indeed with either, hand that by habit is the mo?t dextrous) endeavours to help and a??i?t another, exerts his whole ?trength, and is generally enabled to compa?s his friendly de?ign; or if a blow is nece??ary to be given, the dextrous hand hits the desired mark, and gives ju?t the force de?igned; whereas a blow given through pa??ion, with the aukwardne?s of a weak-handed ?troke, may beat out an eye, flatten a no?e, or indeed aiming at an enemy may ?ometimes hit a friend.

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5, page 471,

     Yet the ?ubjects of the Byzantine empire were ?till the mo?t dextrous and diligent of nations;

   • 1979, Donald E. Worcester, The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest, University of Oklahoma Press, page 53,

     " […] She was renowned as one of the most dextrous horse thieves and horse breakers in the tribe, and seldom permitted an expedition to go on a raid without her presence. The translation of her Apache title was ‘Dextrous Horse Thief’."

   • 1992, Richard A. Gabriel, The Culture of War: Invention and Early Development, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 1,

     Its fingers are longer, more flexible, and more dextrous than those of monkeys and can be moved individually.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin concisus (“cut short”), from concidere (“cut to pieces”), from caedere (“to cut, to strike down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Adjective

concise (comparative more concise, superlative most concise)

1. brief, yet including all important information

Synonyms

• succinct
• terse
• See also Thesaurus:concise

Antonyms

• verbose

Derived terms

• concisely
• concision
• conciseness

Translations

Verb

concise (third-person singular simple present concises, present participle concising, simple past and past participle concised)

1. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

French

Adjective

concise

1. feminine singular of concis

Italian

Adjective

concise

1. feminine plural of conciso

Anagrams

• conscie
• scenico
• sconcie

Latin

Participle

conc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of conc?sus

References

• concise in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• concise in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette