CONCISELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concisely mean? 

• CONCISELY (adverb)
  The adverb CONCISELY has 1 sense:

1. in a concise manner; in a few words

  Familiarity information: CONCISELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCISELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a concise manner; in a few words

Synonyms:

briefly; concisely; in brief; in short; shortly

Context example:

to put it shortly

Pertainym:

concise (expressing much in few words)

 Context examples 

"The name of the place where, and of the person with whom I lived, is my secret," I replied concisely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, I’ll state the case clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a spark where all is dark to me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth replied very concisely that she was.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everybody at all addicted to letter-writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least, must feel with Lady Bertram that she was out of luck in having such a capital piece of Mansfield news as the certainty of the Grants going to Bath, occur at a time when she could make no advantage of it, and will admit that it must have been very mortifying to her to see it fall to the share of her thankless son, and treated as concisely as possible at the end of a long letter, instead of having it to spread over the largest part of a page of her own.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In terms of grateful acknowledgment for the kindness of his brother, though expressed most concisely, he then delivered on paper his perfect approbation of all that was done, and his willingness to fulfil the engagements that had been made for him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)