Terse

//tɜːs//

Synonyms for "terse" (130 found)

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Closest matches (26)

Adjective(3 words)
abruptbriefbrusque

Strong matches (39)

Adjective(4 words)
concisecrisplaconiclapidary
Adjective(3 words)
crispcurtlaconic

Related words (65)

Related word relations

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Antonyms

2 entries

Synonyms

6 entries

derived

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related to

11 entries

similar

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Translations

101 translations across 32 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • στρογγύλος adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • кратък adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • рязък adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • сбит adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • стегнат adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 洗練 /洗练 adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • 簡 /简 adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • 簡明 /简明 adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • 簡潔 /简洁 adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Czech

2 entries
  • strohý adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • strohý adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Danish

1 entries
  • kortfattet adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Dutch

2 entries
  • bondig adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • pittig adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Finnish

3 entries
  • niukkasanainen adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • niukkasanainen adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • töksähtävä adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

French

3 entries
  • laconique adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • laconique adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • lapidaire adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Georgian

1 entries
  • შეკუმშული adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

German

4 entries
  • knapp adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • kurz angebunden adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • markig adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • prägnant adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Greek

3 entries
  • απότομος adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • λακωνικός adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • λιτός adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Gujarati

1 entries
  • મિતભાષી adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • לקוני adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • tömör adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Icelandic

2 entries
  • stuttur og gagnorður adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • stuttur og laggóður adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Irish

2 entries
  • cóngarach adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • gonta adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Italian

4 entries
  • asciutto adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • essenziale adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • laconico adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • scabro adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Japanese

2 entries
  • ぶっきらぼうな adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • 簡明な adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Latin

2 entries
  • adductus adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • contractus adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • зби́ен adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • кра́ток adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • ла́конски adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • сте́гнат adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • وجیز adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Polish

4 entries
  • jędrny adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • krótki adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • lakoniczny adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • lapidarny adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • breve adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • conciso adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • curto adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • direto adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Russian

4 entries
  • ко́ваный adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • кра́ткий adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • лакони́чный adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • немногосло́вный adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • kràtak adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • кра̀так adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Spanish

4 entries
  • brusco adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • conciso adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • cortante adj (abruptly or brusquely short)
  • curto adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Swedish

3 entries
  • koncis adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • kortfattad adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • lapidarisk adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Tibetan

3 entries
  • ཁ་ཉུང adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Turkish

2 entries
  • kısa ve öz adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • veciz adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • небагатослівний adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)
  • стислий adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • cộc lốc adj (abruptly or brusquely short)

Welsh

1 entries
  • cyhyrog adj (brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.

Source: tatoeba (1945)

Mary's email was very terse and it was clear that she was upset about something.

Source: tatoeba (2946039)

He was always terse on the telephone.

Source: tatoeba (8826758)

He received a letter from her, but it was composed of just a few cold, terse words.

Source: tatoeba (8920111)

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