terseadjective
uk/tɜːs/us/tɝːs/using few words, sometimes in a way that seems rude or unfriendly:
"Are you feeling any better?" "No!" was the terse reply.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- abrupt
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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Not saying much
tersely
adverb uk/ˈtɜːs.li/us/ˈtɝːs.li/
"Storm coming," he said tersely.
terseness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈtɜːs.nəs/us/ˈtɝːs.nəs/