Terse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Brief and to the point; effectively concise: a terse one-word answer.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
  • adj. Brief, concise, to the point.
  • adj. Abruptly or brusquely short.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
  • adj. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
  • adj. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wiped; rubbed; appearing as if wiped or rubbed; smooth.
  • Refined; accomplished; polished: said of persons.
  • Free from superfluity; neatly or elegantly compact or concise; neat; concise.
  • n. See terce.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. brief and to the point; effectively cut short
    • Equivalent
    concise   
    Antonym
    prolix    verbose   
    Form
    terseness    tersely   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    compact    concise    neat    rubbed    smooth    polished    refined    accomplished    concis    brusque   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    curt    laconic    concise    pithy    forcible    cryptic    lucid    emphatic    incisive    straightforward   
     
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