Definition of "succinct"

But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.

1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., “Experience”, in Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, page 118

Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company

The Derby Carriage Works foreman, when informed that this coach was to be run at 90 m.p.h. to obtain information on bogie hunting, is reported to have offered one succinct word of advice - "Don't!"

1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94