using few words and often not seeming polite or friendly:
a terse voice / style * The President issued a terse statement denying the charges.
tersely adverb:
'I won't,' he replied tersely.
terseness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for terse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is terse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, terse is tagged as adjective.
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