Is This A Word?
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@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?
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@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?
@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.
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@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.
@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.
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