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Showing words for TERSE using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Terse

ester, estre, reest, reset, retes, steer, stere, teers, terse, trees, tsere

4 Letter Words for Terse

eres, erse, erst, rees, reet, rest, rete, rets, seer, sere, sert, ster, stre, teer, tees, tree, tres

3 Letter Words for Terse

eer, ere, ers, ert, ese, esr, est, ree, res, rte, see, ser, set, str, tee, ter, tes, trs

Definitions for Terse

[1] neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
[2] abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
[3] neatly brief and concise
[4] curt; abrupt

Words related to Terse

precise, curt, cryptic, incisive, concise, brusque, laconic, pithy, succinct, elliptical, trenchant, abrupt, clear-cut, close, compact, compendious, condensed, crisp, epigrammatic, exact

Words nearby Terse

terrorist, terrorize, terry, terry's syndrome, tersanctus, terse, tertial, tertian, tertian malaria, tertianship, tertiary

Origin of Terse

1595–1605; < Latin tersus, past participle of tergēre to rub off, wipe off, clean, polish

Other words from Terse

terse·ly , adverb
terse·ness , noun
un·terse , adjective
un·terse·ly , adverb
un·terse·ness , noun

Word origin for Terse

C17: from Latin tersus precise, from tergēre to polish

Synonyms for Terse

brusque, concise, cryptic, curt, elliptical, incisive, laconic, pithy, precise, succinct, trenchant, abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, compendiary, compendious, condensed, crisp, cut to the bone, epigrammatic, exact, gnomic, in a nutshell, lean, neat, pointed, sententious, short and sweet, snappy, summary, taut, to the point