[responsivevoice]terse[/responsivevoice] [ turs ]
The word of the day is ‘terse’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Brief
2. Short
3. Abrupt
4. Sparing in the use of words
1. But with the true poet, everything is terse, touching, or brilliant.
2. This is terse, but it involved much more than was said, as will later appear
3. This was terse, pointed, plausible—the stereotyped “machine” argument.
4. The terse—too terse—message passed from hand to hand till it reached Terry.
5. The characters are cleverly drawn, the dialogue is terse and pointed
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
brusque, concise, cryptic, curt, elliptical, incisive, laconic, pithy, precise, succinct, trenchant, abrupt, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, clear-cut, clipped, close, compact, 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, abrupt, clipped, blunt, gruff, short, brief, to the point, incisive, economical etc.
gentle, kind, lengthy, long-winded, nice, polite, verbose, wordy, prolix, rambling, diffuse, garrulous, ambiguous, convoluted, expanded, circumlocutory, biting, gracious
Quotation:
The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking – something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.
Joseph Pulitzer
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