Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synoptic \Syn*op"tic\, Synoptical \Syn*op"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?:
   cf. F. synoptique. See {Synopsis}.]
   Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal
   parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical
   statement of an argument. ``The synoptic Gospels.'' --Alford.
   -- {Syn*op"tic*al*ly}, adv.