Terse

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  • adjective. Brief and to the point; effectively concise.
    • 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.
  • noun. See terce.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
  • adjective. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
  • adjective. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
  • adjective. Brief, concise, to the point.
  • adjective. Abruptly or brusquely short.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. brief and to the point; effectively cut short
    • Word Usage
    "Ms. Diallo's lawyers received what one of them called a "terse" letter Friday inviting her to meet with prosecutors at 3 p.m. to discuss what will happen in court Tuesday."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    prolix  verbose  
    Equivalent
    concise  
    Form
    tersely  terseness  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse  adverse  averse  biodiverse  burse  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    apt  authoritative  brief  businesslike  concise  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Attic  Ciceronian  Spartan  abbreviated  abridged  
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