compendious
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day

compendious

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 20262 min
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 23, 2026 is: compendious \kum-PEN-dee-us\ adjective See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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one may want or require. Similarly, a person might be said to have compendious knowledge

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can also describe something that is both comprehensive and concise, as in a compendious

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It's the Word of the Day podcast for September 23rd. Today's word is compendius, spelled C-O-M-P-E-N-D-I-O-U-S. Compendius is an adjective. A compendius book, research paper, or article is one that provides most or all of the information

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one may want or require. Similarly, a person might be said to have compendious knowledge of a subject if they have a full and wide-ranging, that is, comprehensive grasp of it. Compendious can also describe something that is both comprehensive and concise, as in a compendious summary. Here's the word used in a sentence from the Boston Globe.

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much of a career that spanned decades, he pursued the ausines or songbirds of the neotropics to their habitats in the southern hemisphere, sketching, making compendious field notes, and amassing a vast file of images that he used as a reference tool when painting the plates for definitive books.

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