terse

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɜːs/
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• Canada, US: /tɝːs/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)s
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• homophone: terce
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• CMU ARPABET: T ER1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of Latin tergeō, tergō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”).

101 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сбит (sbit) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Bulgarian: стегнат (stegnat) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡 /简 (jiǎn) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡短 /简短 (jiǎnduǎn) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡潔 /简洁 (jiǎnjié) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡明 /简明 (jiǎnmíng) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 精練 /精练 (jīngliàn) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 緊湊 /紧凑 (jǐncòu) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Chinese Mandarin: 洗練 /洗练 (xǐliàn) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Czech: strohý — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Dutch: bondig — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Dutch: pittig — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Finnish: niukkasanainen — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• French: laconique — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Georgian: შეკუმშული (šeḳumšuli) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• German: knapp — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• German: markig — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• German: prägnant — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Greek: λακωνικός (lakonikós) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Greek: λιτός (litós) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Ancient Greek: στρογγύλος (strongúlos) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Gujarati: મિતભાષી (mitbhāṣī) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Hebrew: לקוני — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Hungarian: tömör — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Icelandic: stuttur og gagnorður — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Icelandic: stuttur og laggóður — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Irish: cóngarach — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Irish: gonta — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: asciutto — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: essenziale — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: laconico — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: scabro — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: stringato — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Italian: sintetico — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Japanese: 簡明な (kanmei na) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Latin: adductus — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Latin: contractus — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Macedonian: зби́ен (zbíen) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Macedonian: сте́гнат (stégnat) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Macedonian: ла́конски (lákonski) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Polish: jędrny — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Polish: lakoniczny — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Polish: lapidarny — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Polish: zwięzły — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Portuguese: conciso — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Russian: ко́ваный (kóvanyj) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Russian: кра́ткий (krátkij) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Russian: немногосло́вный (nemnogoslóvnyj) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Russian: лакони́чный (lakoníčnyj) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: conciso — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: lacónico — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: parco — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: escueto — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: sucinto — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Spanish: terso — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Swedish: koncis — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Swedish: kortfattad — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Swedish: lapidarisk — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ (tshig nyung don bsdus pa) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Tibetan: ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང (tshig nyung don tshang) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཉུང (kha nyung) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Turkish: kısa ve öz — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Turkish: veciz — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Ottoman Turkish: وجیز (veciz) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Ukrainian: стислий (styslyj) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Ukrainian: небагатослівний (nebahatoslivnyj) — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Welsh: cyhyrog — brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise
• Bulgarian: кратък (kratǎk) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Bulgarian: рязък (rjazǎk) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Czech: strohý — abruptly or brusquely short
• Danish: kortfattet — abruptly or brusquely short
• Finnish: niukkasanainen — abruptly or brusquely short
• Finnish: töksähtävä — abruptly or brusquely short
• French: laconique — abruptly or brusquely short
• French: lapidaire — abruptly or brusquely short
• German: kurz angebunden — abruptly or brusquely short
• German: wortkarg — abruptly or brusquely short
• Greek: απότομος (apótomos) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Japanese: ぶっきらぼうな (bukkirabō na) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Macedonian: кра́ток (krátok) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Polish: krótki — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: breve — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: curto — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: direto — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: lacónico — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: resumido — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: sucinto — abruptly or brusquely short
• Portuguese: sintético — abruptly or brusquely short
• Russian: односло́жный (odnoslóžnyj) — abruptly or brusquely short
• Serbo-Croatian: kràtak — abruptly or brusquely short
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̀так — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: brusco — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: lacónico — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: cortante — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: seco — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: escueto — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: telegráfico — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: curto — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: terso — abruptly or brusquely short
• Vietnamese: cộc lốc — abruptly or brusquely short
• Spanish: terso — burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce