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terse

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of terse

marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning

could tell from his terse replies to my questions that he was in no mood to talk

Synonyms of terse

aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, thumbnail

Words Related to terse

abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy

abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened

meaty, substantial

meaningful, significant

Near Antonyms of terse

pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous

enlarged, expanded, supplemented

embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated

Antonyms of terse

circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy

Synonym Discussion of terse

concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious mean very brief in statement or expression. concise suggests the removal of all that is superfluous or elaborative.

- a concise description

terse implies pointed conciseness.

- a terse reply

succinct implies the greatest possible compression.

- a succinct letter of resignation

laconic implies brevity to the point of seeming rude, indifferent, or mysterious.

- an aloof and laconic stranger

summary suggests the statement of main points with no elaboration or explanation.

- a summary listing of the year's main events

pithy adds to succinct or terse the implication of richness of meaning or substance.

- a comedy sharpened by pithy one-liners

compendious applies to what is at once full in scope and brief and concise in treatment.

- a compendious dictionary

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