in a nutshell

Strong match

• pointed

Weak matches

• boiled down
• compendious
• concise
• epigrammatic
• laconic
• make a long story short
• marrowy
• meaty
• pithy
• short and sweet
• succinct
• terse
• to the point

Strongest matches

• pithy
• succinct
• terse

Weak matches

• abridged
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• brief
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• compressed
• condensed
• curt
• epigrammatic
• laconic
• lean
• marrowy
• meaty
• short and sweet
• summary
• synoptic

Strongest matches

• barbed
• incisive
• pertinent
• sarcastic
• sharp
• telling
• trenchant

Strong matches

• cutting
• insinuating
• keen

Weak matches

• accurate
• acid
• acute
• boiled down
• calling a spade a spade
• laid on the line
• legit
• meaty
• on the button
• on the nose
• pregnant
• right to it
• short-and-sweet
• tart

Strongest matches

• abbreviated
• brief
• crisp
• precise
• shortened
• terse

Strong matches

• bare
• compressed
• condensed
• curtailed
• decreased
• diminished
• fleeting
• lessened
• little
• summarized
• summary

Weak matches

• aphoristic
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• compendiary
• compendious
• concise
• curtate
• cut short
• cut to the bone
• decurtate
• epigrammatic
• laconic
• momentary
• not protracted
• pithy
• sententious
• short and sweet
• short-term
• succinct
• undersized
• unprolonged
• unsustained

Weak matches

• brief
• compact
• concise
• condensed
• succinct
• summary

Strongest matches

• blunt
• concise
• curt
• pithy
• terse

Weak matches

• boiled down
• breviloquent
• brusque
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• condensed
• cut to the bone
• in few words
• laconic
• short
• summary

Strongest matches

• arbitrary
• cursory
• curt
• hasty
• succinct
• terse

Strong matches

• brief
• compact
• run through
• short

Weak matches

• boiled down
• breviloquent
• compacted
• compendiary
• compendious
• condensed
• laconic
• perfunctory
• pithy
• recapped
• rehashed
• run down
• short and sweet

Strongest matches

• brusque
• concise
• cryptic
• curt
• elliptical
• incisive
• laconic
• pithy
• precise
• succinct
• trenchant

Weak matches

• abrupt
• aphoristic
• boiled down
• breviloquent
• clear-cut
• clipped
• close
• compact
• compendiary
• compendious
• condensed
• crisp
• cut to the bone
• epigrammatic
• exact
• gnomic
• lean
• neat
• pointed
• sententious
• short and sweet
• snappy
• summary
• taut
• to the point

Strongest match

• shortly

Weak matches

• in brief
• in short
• succinctly
• summarily
• to sum things up