Meanings (ES + gloss)
conciso • escueto • lacónico • parco • sucinto • terso
Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
The book contains some happily done portrait touches of Napoleon, [...] and this and other aphoristical sentences scattered throughout this volume, [...] form as terse and trenchan…
Your last series contains some of the neatest, tersest, and most unpretendingly original criticism, I have lately met with.
brusco • cortante • curto • escueto • lacónico • seco • telegráfico • terso
Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.
'Laura!' The voice halting her was terse. Brusque. She turned. [...] 'Before I go,' he said, and his voice was terse, tighter than ever. 'I want to ensure you understand something.…
My voice was terser than I intended, but what the hell. The night was turning out to be interesting in some ways and extremely frustrating in others.
terso
Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce.