TERSE

TERSE


This is a 5 letter answer

Dictionary definitions:


Word: terse

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(by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
(by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.
Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.


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Abrupt
Adjective for Calvin Coolidges comments
Antisesquipedalian
As in a nutshell
Blunt
Breviloquent
Brief
Brief and pithy
Brief and to the point
Brusque
By no means long-winded
Certainly not verbose
Clipped
Compact
Compendious
Concise
Coolidgelike
Crisp
Curt
Effectively concise
Elliptical
Epigrammatic
Far from diffuse
Far from flowery
Far from loquacious
Far from prolix
Far from verbose
Far from windy
Far from wordy
Free of superfluity
Hardly chatty
Hardly gabby
Hardly garrulous
Hardly long-winded
Hardly loquacious
Hardly prolix
Hardly sesquipedalian
Hardly talkative
Hardly verbose
Hardly windy
Hardly wordy
In a nutshell
In headlinese
In telegraphese
Its not wordy! Its not wordy!
Lacking long-windedness
Laconic
Like Calvin Coolidges comments
Like Calvin Coolidge
Like Coolidges utterances
Like Coolidge
Like Hemingways prose
Like Silent Cal
Like a man of few words
Like an aphorism
Like aphorisms
Like apothegms
Like headlines
Like telegram messages
Like telegrams
Like the review Hated it
Low on word count
Monosyllabic
Most crossword clues
Neither wordy
Not at all garrulous
Not at all windy
Not drawn out
Not flowery
Not garrulous
Not going on
Not in any way
Not inclined to go on
Not long-winded
Not mincing words
Not real chatty
Not roundabout
Not saying much
Not verbose
Not very vocal
Not very wordy
Not wandering
Not windy
Not windy?
Not wordy
Of few words
Opposite of prolix
Pauciloquent
Pithy
Pointed
Quick and to the point
Right to the point
Shirt and court
Short
Short and direct
Short and maybe not sweet
Short and maybe sweet
Short and often not sweet
Short and snappy
Short and sweet
Short and sweet (5)
Short and sweet?
Short and to the point
Short on words
Short winded
Short-and-sweet
Short-spoken
Short-winded
Spare
Sparing of words
Steer
Succient
Succinct
Succinctly worded
Succinctly worded (5)
Succintly worded
Summary
To the point
To-the-point
Unlike filibusters
Unlike most Jesse Jackson speeches
Unlike this obnoxiously verbose
Unpadded
Unwordy
Using few words
Verbally sparing
Very short
Without any embroidery
Without wasted words
Without wasting words
Pithy; concise.
Not prolix.
Sparely worded.
Telegraphic.
Wasting no words.
Cryptic
With no words wasted
Sententious.
Short and pithy
Concentrated
Polished
Revision of 20 Across
Short and sharp
Like Coolidge's utterances
In headlinese, say
Like the review Hated it, e.g.
Like Hemingway's prose
Like telegrams, typically
Hardly wandering
Adhering to Strunk and White's advice Omit needless words
Like tweets, by necessity
Elliptical, in a way
Hardly rambling
___ crisp
Like one-word answers
Like newspaper headlines, typically
Like the answer No.
Facetious response to Describe yourself in three adjectives
Like tweets
Succinctly put
Short, concise and to the point (unlike this clue)
Opposite of verbose
Lacking in detail
Snippy, in a way
Crisp and brief
Curtly brief
Curt — abrupt
Brusque, certain characters in Battersea
In first of teasers, language is concise
Curt, in sister's estimation
Quartermaster-sergeant, somewhat brusque
Crisply brief, language used after beginning to taxi
Brusque, in sister's estimation
Abrupt arbiter settled cases
Brief gives bum steer
Abrupt, curt
Curt, concise
Brusque, concise
Abrupt, monosyllabic
Clipped end of secret language
Compact arrangement of trees
Trees cut short
Short extract from Chapter Seven
Not long retired back to Home Counties
During winter, sex is brief!
The grasses are oddly clipped
Short of some computer services
Compact part of Battersea
Extract from chapter seen to be concise
Compact found in Battersea
Short and not so sweet
Far from talkative
Brief winter season — victory a boy delivered
Short time before eating seconds
Short sleeves retained, partially turned up
Short stretch of shorter sentence
Thorpe's boundaries risked losing all, even being abrupt
Some after sex that's quick
Brief in speech
Worded concisely
Brief in ones words
Saying few words
Saying little
Concise in speech
Briefly worded
Wasting few words
Rudely brief
Not the slightest bit windy
Like many Clint Eastwood characters
Cut short
Effrontery
Astern
Make little of
Be careful!
___ misty...
I'm taking notes about French city
Enrols in Society to drink, accepting gin cocktail
Following
In Leeds, the language is abrupt
Short Peter Sellers covers
Short contribution to poster session
Discover barristers examining brief
Concise, pithy
Neatly concise
Not given to speeches
In few words
Economically put
Orally economical
Abrupt language after concerts conclusion
Short and probably not sweet
Curt, of few words
Brusque, in sisters estimation
Short piece from Pinter series
Not very long
Brief in using words
Economical with words.
Like one-word commands
Short bit of Bible given new introduction
Concise in wording
Straight to the point
Hardly flowery
Far from word
Concise in words spoken




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