Is This A Word?

[Catseye3]

Compendiously
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[Aqua Letifer]

@catseye3 said in Is This A Word?:

Compendiously

Yes, but it's clunky. "Compendious," the adjective, means "is like a compendium." To use it as an adverb makes very little sense. In what way does a compendium "act" that would describe another action more clearly?

[Catseye3]

@aqua-letifer The Bookbub writeup for the book Stopping Napoleon was described as a “compendiously detailed” account, which description came from The Spectator.

You're right; it's clunky and kind of pretentious also. Also kind of redundant -- though I guess a thing can be treated with varying degrees of detail.

[Aqua Letifer]

@catseye3 said in Is This A Word?:

compendiously detailed

Compendia are concise compilations. They're broad, not deep. This reviewer is a bit of a dipshit.