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Adjective
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terse

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective has 1 sense

  • terse(s = adj.all) crisp, curt, laconic - brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "short and terse and easy to understand"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"

  • Derived form noun terseness1

CIDE DICTIONARY

a. Array
  •  Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.  Massinger.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

, adj. (terser, tersest)
1 (of language) brief, concise, to the point.
2 curt, abrupt.

Derivative
tersely adv. terseness n.
Etymology
L tersus past part. of tergere wipe, polish

THESAURUS

Attic, Ciceronian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aphoristic, aposiopestic, axiomatic, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, chaste, classic, clear, clear-cut, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concentrated, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, direct, distilled, docked, dumb, easy, economical of words, elegant, elliptic, epigrammatic, finished, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, graceful, gracile, gruff, incisive, indisposed to talk, laconic, lean, limpid, lucid, mum, mute, natural, neat, pellucid, perspicuous, petulant, pithy, plain, platitudinous, pointed, polished, precise, proverbial, pruned, pungent, pure, quiet, refined, reserved, restrained, round, rude, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, simple, snug, sparing of words, speechless, straightforward, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, tart, tasteful, taut, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, trim, truncated, unaffected, ungracious, unlabored, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

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Conciseness

N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.

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