Curt vs Terse - What's the difference?
curt | terse |
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
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Short or concise.
(obsolete) Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
(of speech or style) Brief, concise, to the point.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 4, author=Lewis Smith, work=the Guardian
, title= Abruptly or brusquely short.
Terse is a synonym of curt.
As adjectives the difference between curt and terse
is that curt is brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude while terse is polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.As a proper noun Curt
is a short form of the male given name Curtis.curt
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(er)Synonyms
* (terse to the point of being rude) abrupt, blunt, brusqueDerived terms
* curtly * curtness * curtailAnagrams
* English autological terms ----terse
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Adjective
(er)- "A consise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge consisting of over 16,000 terse and original articles on nearly all subjects discussed in larger encyclopaedias,"
Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?, passage=Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, "for the next 40 years", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.}}