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Word | Terse |
Japanese Meaning | 簡潔な, コンサイス |
brief and to the point; effectively cut short; a crisp retort; a response so curt as to be almost rude; the laconic reply; `yes'; short and terse and easy to understand / brief and to the point / Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off / concise; abrupt; pithy / sparing in the use of words; abrupt. / brief and direct in a way that may seem rude or unfriendly, | |
Usage | ⇒ It was a terse judgement ⇒ There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt. ⇒ She gave me a few terse instructions and promptly left the room. ⇒ a terse statement |
Synonyms | short, curt, abrupt, concise, laconic, brief, compact, succinct, pithy, epigrammatic, brusque, crisp, summary, compendious, condensed, blunt, sententious, aphoristic, gruff, neat, |
Antonyms | wordy, long-winded, lengthy, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, long, prolix, verbose, circuitous, circumlocutory, convoluted, ambiguous, attentive, expanded, gracious, interminable, pleonastic, biting, bland, |
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