Synonyms and Antonyms of compendious
- her compendious knowledge of the monarch butterfly
all-embracing, all-in [chiefly British], all-inclusive, broad-gauge (or broad-gauged), complete, comprehensive, cover-all, cyclopedic, embracive, encyclopedic, exhaustive, full, global, in-depth, inclusive, omnibus, panoramic, thorough, universal
broad, catholic, encyclical, general, inclusionary, overall
cosmic (also cosmical), extensive, far, far-reaching, grand, large, panoptic, sweeping, vast, wide, wide-ranging
- a compendious summary of the referendum before the voters
aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail