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Reconcile vs Concise - What's the difference?

reconcile | concise |

As a verb reconcile

is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

As an adjective concise is

brief, yet including all important information.

reconcile

English

(reconciliation)

Verb

(reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation

    concise

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • brief, yet including all important information

    • Synonyms

    * succinct * See also

    Antonyms

    * verbose

    Derived terms

    * concisely * concision * conciseness