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terse
  1. (obsolete) polish, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce
  2. (of speech or style) brief, concise, to the point
  3. abruptly or brusquely short
  4. Synonyms:
      5. concise, succinct, curt, brief, short, pithy, crisp, laconic, compact, epigrammatic, compendious, aphoristic, summary, thumbnail, condensed, monosyllabic, apothegmatic, elliptical, sententious, capsule, telegraphic, elliptic, pointed, incisive, breviloquent, compendiary, clipped, gnomic, neat, economical, lean, precise, close, taut, cryptic, exact, to the point, short and sweet, boiled down, in a nutshell, clear-cut, cut to the bone, synoptic, compressed, abridged, abbreviated, sparing, sharp, brusque, lapidary … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The pity and the terror of the situation are conveyed in terse, crisp prose.”
      “Without so much as a greeting, she wrapped the reins around the saddle horn and spoke in a terse tone.”
      “The terse statement issued by both parties today didn't elaborate on the deal.”
terser
  1. comparative form of terse: more terse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. succincter, curter, briefer, shorter, pithier, crisper, neater, leaner, closer, tauter, more concise, more laconic, more compact, more compendious, more summary, more condensed, more apothegmatic, more elliptical, more sententious, more telegraphic, more pointed, more incisive, more breviloquent, more gnomic, more economical, more precise, more cryptic, more exact, more short and sweet, more clear-cut, more synoptic, more compressed, more abridged, more abbreviated, more sparing, sharper, snappier, brusquer, wittier, tighter, more contracted, more truncated, more economic, more trenchant, more meaningful, more epigrammatical, more perfunctory, more rapid, quicker, less … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Where earlier writers might have used prepositional phrases, Classical authors preferred bare nominal-case forms as terser and more exact.”
      “Texting feels more intimate, even if it is simply a terser cousin of e-mail, though even that intimacy has limitations.”
      “The court in Bourke's case conducted an even terser version of the Kay analysis in reaching the same conclusion in a pretrial ruling.”
tersest
  1. superlative form of terse: most terse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. succinctest, curtest, briefest, shortest, pithiest, crispest, neatest, leanest, closest, tautest, most concise, most laconic, most compact, most compendious, most summary, most condensed, most apothegmatic, most elliptical, most sententious, most telegraphic, most pointed, most incisive, most breviloquent, most gnomic, most economical, most precise, most cryptic, most exact, most short and sweet, most clear-cut, most synoptic, most compressed, most abridged, most abbreviated, most sparing, sharpest, snappiest, brusquest, wittiest, tightest, most contracted, most truncated, most economic, most trenchant, most meaningful, most epigrammatical, most perfunctory, most rapid, quickest, least … more
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