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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb brief which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

brief
  1. Of short duration; happening quickly. [from 15th c.]
  2. Concise; taking few words. [from 15th c.]
  3. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short. [from 17th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. concise, succinct, crisp, short, laconic, pithy, compressed, thumbnail, compendious, epigrammatic, aphoristic, compact, monosyllabic, abridged, condensed, curt, incisive, limited, terse, abbreviated, clipped, pointed, sparing, apothegmatic, breviloquent, capsule, compendiary, potted, sententious, small, summary, telegraphic, fast, little, snippy, boiled down, to the point, short and sweet, elliptical, elliptic, synoptic, shortened, summarized, summarised, truncated, contracted, in a nutshell, gnomic, curtailed, lapidary … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The foreword provides a brief synopsis of what is to come in the rest of the book.”
      “Only then does the audience have its brief opportunity to launch incisive ripostes into the heart of the thesis.”
      “She brushed me off, this time with a brief request that I would go and boil my head.”
briefer
  1. comparative form of brief: more brief
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shorter, reduced, curtailed, diminished, lessened, less, lower, more concise, terser, curter, brusquer, blunter, more abrupt, sharper, bluffer, succincter, crisper, more laconic, pithier, more compressed, more compendious, more compact, more abridged, more incisive, more limited, more condensed, more abbreviated, more pointed, more sparing, smaller, more apothegmatic, more breviloquent, more telegraphic, more sententious, more summary, snippier, faster, more short and sweet, concise, summarized, abridged, truncated, edited, summarised, condensed, brief, compressed, summary, shortened, thumbnail … more
briefless
  1. (law) Lacking briefs (clients)
  2. Examples:
      3. “One briefless barrister who had been watching the trial, came out with a novel.”
      “There were those controlled by instructions, for example, the briefless barrister recruited for the work.”
      “Bitter are a briefless bag, a curate's bread, a diploma that brings no fee.”
brevitic
  1. (rare) Embodying brevity.
briefe
  1. Obsolete spelling of brief
briefish
  1. Somewhat brief.
briefest
  1. superlative form of brief: most brief most brief.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. succinctest, crispest, shortest, pithiest, curtest, tersest, smallest, fastest, least, snippiest, most concise, most laconic, most compressed, most compendious, most compact, most abridged, most condensed, most incisive, most limited, most abbreviated, most pointed, most sparing, most apothegmatic, most breviloquent, most sententious, most summary, most telegraphic, most short and sweet, quickest, hastiest, swiftest, shortest-lived, shortest-term, most fleeting, most temporary, most ephemeral, most momentary, most transitory, most passing, most transient, most cursory, most evanescent, most fugacious, most fugitive, most hurried, most flash, most perfunctory … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There's just something about the situation that brings the thought to the foreground for just the briefest of seconds.”
      “We enjoyed a sandy off-road diversion and the briefest of dips in the North Atlantic, with its warming Gulf Stream magic.”
      “His smirk turned into a smile, for the briefest of fleeting moments, before he rose from the table, and walked away.”
briefed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of brief
  2. Synonyms:
      3. led, guided, educated, informed, mentored, counseled, counselled, explained, instructed, taught, trained, tutored, coached, drilled, enlightened, helped, holp, drummed into, indoctrinated, let in on, showed, showed the ropes, demonstrated, directed, advised, clarified, prepared, developed, expounded, nurtured, explicated, described, inculcated, pointed out, schooled, supervised, lectured, gave lessons, gave instructions, gave the facts, shown the ropes, given the facts, given lessons, shown, given instructions, developt, told, disciplined, primed, put someone through their paces … more
briefing
  1. present participle of brief
  2. Synonyms:
      3. instructing, priming, informing, preparing, advising, apprising, familiarising, familiarizing, acquainting, enlightening, telling, versing, clearing, directing, guiding, updating, edifying, explaining, hipping, initiating, orienting, advising of, informing of, notifying of, telling about, updating on, acquainting with, apprising of, clueing in, filling in, giving a rundown, giving rundown, letting in on, catching up, cluing in on, giving information about, giving the lowdown, tipping off, cluing up about, filling in on, genning up, genning up on, giving instructions, giving the gen, giving the gen on, giving the rundown on, keeping posted, bringing up to date on, putting in the picture, keeping up to speed with … more
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