in short
To put concisely
In short introduces a summary or condensed version of what's been said: In short, we need more time and money.
It signals that you're cutting to the essential point, stripping away detail or qualification.
Synonymous with *in brief* or *to sum up*.
- gistCentral meaning distilled
- conciseBriefly and clearly stated
- summaryCondensed account of essentials
- to summarizeState core points briefly
- recapBrief review of events
the gist is · brief · bullet points · executive summary · précis · takeaway · in a nutshell · bottom line · in sum · upshot · pithy · TL;DR · crux · succinct · distillation · bare bones · laconic · summation
- in summaryin brief, in sum, briefly, succinctly, to sum up
- clarifiersi.e., e.g., namely, meaning, specifically
- clarifying languagenamely, specifically, in other words, that is, for example
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- summariessummary, synopsis, summaries, abstract, abstracts
- clarifying phrasesi.e., that is, namely, to clarify, meaning
in shortat length
In great detail
in detail · in full · to elaborate · in depth · elaborately
in shortin full
Without any omission
in its entirety · in toto · from start to finish · the whole story · unabridged
short, shorten, shorts, shortly, shortness, shortened, shortening, shortener, shorteners