Definition of "compendious"

compendious

adjective
comparative more compendious, superlative most compendious
1. containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
  Quotations
  AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s.This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.
  1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26
2. briefly describing a body of knowledge