curt

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• General-American: /kɝt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɜːt/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t
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• homophone: Kurt
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• CMU ARPABET: K ER1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: лаконичен (lakoničen) — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Catalan: brusc — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Catalan: eixut — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Czech: úsečný — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Czech: odměřený — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Czech: strohý — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Finnish: töykeä — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Finnish: tyly — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• French: abrupt — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• French: sommaire — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• German: brüsk — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• German: knapp — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• German: kurzangebunden — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• German: barsch — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• German: schroff — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Hungarian: kurta — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Irish: gearr-abartha — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Irish: gearrbhéalach — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Macedonian: о́стар (óstar) — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Portuguese: brusco — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Portuguese: seco — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Portuguese: áspero — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Russian: отрывистый (otryvistyj) — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Russian: немногословный (nemnogoslovnyj) — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Russian: односложный (odnosložnyj) — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: seco — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: cortante — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: brusco — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: parco — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: telegráfico — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: escueto — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Spanish: curto — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Swedish: brysk — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Swedish: tvär — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Swedish: korthuggen — brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
• Bulgarian: кратък (kratǎk) — short or concise
• Bulgarian: сбит (sbit) — short or concise
• Czech: strohý — short or concise
• Czech: bryskní — short or concise
• Czech: stručný — short or concise
• Finnish: lyhyt — short or concise
• Finnish: tiivis — short or concise
• Finnish: niukkasanainen — short or concise
• Galician: curto — short or concise
• German: kurz — short or concise
• German: kurzgefasst — short or concise
• Hungarian: rövid — short or concise
• Hungarian: rövidített — short or concise
• Hungarian: tömör — short or concise
• Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok) — short or concise
• Macedonian: зби́ен (zbíen) — short or concise
• Macedonian: сте́гнат (stégnat) — short or concise
• Macedonian: ла́конски (lákonski) — short or concise
• Portuguese: curto — short or concise
• Portuguese: conciso — short or concise
• Portuguese: sucinto — short or concise
• Russian: лаконичный (lakoničnyj) — short or concise
• Russian: сжатый (sžatyj) — short or concise
• Spanish: corto — short or concise
• Spanish: conciso — short or concise
• Spanish: parco — short or concise
• Spanish: lacónico — short or concise
• Spanish: escueto — short or concise
• Spanish: sucinto — short or concise
• Spanish: curto — short or concise