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adj. performed speedily and without formality; "a summary execution"; "summary justice"

adj. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

brief

adj. of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the country"

direct

adj. moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

truncate, truncated

adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid"

abridged

adj. (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version"

flying, quick, fast

adj. hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"

informal, loose

adj. not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers"

unauthorized, unauthorised, wildcat

adj. without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike"; "wildcat work stoppage"

aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic

adj. terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"

crisp, curt, laconic, terse

adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

cryptic

adj. having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

elliptic, elliptical

adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor

sententious

adj. abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes

telegraphic

adj. having the style of a telegram with many short words left out; "telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"

long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy

adj. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

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