terse Definition

curt, laconic, concise, crisp, succinct, blunt, brief, summary, compendious, dry, pithy, cryptic, eloquent, brusque, verbose, wordy, unquotable, sarcastic, perfunctory, aphoristic, deadpan, jocular, businesslike, forthright, flippant, glib, scathing, prolix, monosyllabic, polite, taciturn, gnomic, epigrammatic, chatty, staccato, loquacious, stilted, heartfelt, breviloquence, unforthcoming, effusive, placatory, platitudinous, apologetic, unilluminating, lawyerly, unrevealing, wry, ungrammatical, uninformative, prefatory, testy, bluntest, barbed, conciliatory, delphic, defiant, snippy, noncommittal, accusatory, jokey, impassioned, rueful, praiseful, unenlightening, dismissive, contrite, fulsome, plaintive, longwinded, declarative, vitriolic, equivocal, denunciatory, droll, downbeat, unrhetorical, condemnatory, vague, uninflected, offhand, vituperative, banal, commatic, laudatory, dour, petulant, snappish, perissological, undramatic, stoic, winded, telegraphic, somber, apothegmatic, florid, acerbic, disobliging, pugnacious, noncommital,