Curt
/kɝt/ adj, name, verb
adj, name, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cut, cut short, shorten. obsolete, rare
"Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away."
Adjective
- 1 Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
"Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]"
- 2 Short or concise.
Adjective
- 1 brief and to the point; effectively cut short wordnet
- 2 marked by rude or peremptory shortness wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A short form of the male given name Curtis
- 2 A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
Example
More examples"Don't you think it's rude to give people such a curt reply like that?"
Etymology
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.