Compendious

 WORD OF THE DAY

compendious / adjective / kum-PEN-dee-us

Definition
1: marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter
2: concise and comprehensive

Examples
"But as a far-reaching, compendious and elegantly turned examination of a region and its peoples, this book is unlikely to be surpassed."
 — Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph (London), 22 Aug. 2020

Another documents the founding in 1974 — by Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, Sahli Cavallaro, Pamela Olin and Julia Stanley — of a compendious and still-growing register of lesbian culture called the Herstory Archives.
— Julianne Mcshane, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019

Did You Know?
Compendious comes from Latin compendium, meaning "saving," "shortcut," and, in its most literal sense, "that which is weighed together."
Compendium has its source in the Latin verb compendere, meaning "to weigh together."