Synonyms of the word

brief

• adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
• adj. Concise; taking few words.
• adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
• n. (law) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
• n. (law) An answer to any action.
• n. (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
• n. (by extension, figuratively) A position of interest or advocacy.
• n. (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
• n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the…
• n. (informal) A short news story or report.
• n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
• n. (Britain, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution…
• n. (slang) A ticket of any type.
• v. (transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
• v. (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.

abbreviated

• adj. Shortened; made briefer.
• adj. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
• adj. Scanty, as in clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate.

abstract

• n. An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
• n. Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
• n. An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
• n. The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
• n. (art) An abstract work of art.
• n. (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of…
• adj. (obsolete) Derived; extracted.
• adj. (now rare) Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
• adj. Expressing a property or attribute separately of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object.
• adj. Considered apart from any application to a particular object; not concrete; ideal; non-specific; general,…
• adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
• adj. (archaic) Absent-minded.
• adj. (art) Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships…
• adj. Insufficiently factual.
• adj. Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
• adj. (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
• adj. (computing) Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than…
• v. (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
• v. (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
• v. (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To extract by means of distillation.
• v. (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically;…
• v. (intransitive, reflexive, literally figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
• v. (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
• v. (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
• v. (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used…

apprise

• v. (transitive) To notify, or to make aware; to inform.

apprize

• v. To appraise.
• v. To apprise.

concise

• adj. brief, yet including all important information.
• v. (India, transitive) To make concise; to abridge or summarize.

instruct

• v. (transitive) to teach by giving instructions.
• v. (transitive) to direct; to order (usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier…
• n. (obsolete) instruction.
• adj. (obsolete) arranged; furnished; provided.
• adj. (obsolete) instructed; taught; enlightened.

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

outline

• n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
• n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
• n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
• n. A general description of some subject.
• n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
• n. A preliminary plan for a project.
• n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
• v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
• v. (transitive) To summarize something.

precis

• n. Alternative spelling of précis.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

synopsis

• n. A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or…
• n. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.