English-Thai Dictionary

terse

ADJ กะทัดรัด  รวบรัด  สั้น แต่ ได้ ใจความ  ได้ ใจความ ดี  brief concise pointed exact wordy verbose prolix ka-tad-rad

 

tersely

ADV อย่าง กะทัดรัด  briefly yang-ka-tad-rad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TERSE

a.ters. [L. tersus, from tergo, to wipe. ] Cleanly written; neat; elegant without pompousness; as terse language; a terse style.
Diffus'd, yet terse, poetical, though plain.

 

TERSELY

adv. ters'ly. Neatly.

 

TERSENESS

n.ters'ness. Neatness of style; smoothness of language.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TERSE

Terse, a. [Compar. Terser; superl. Tersest.] Etym: [L. tersus, p.p.of tergere to rub or wipe off. ]

 

1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs. ] Many stones,... although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

 

2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs. ] "Your polite and terse gallants." Massinger.

 

3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow.

 

Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by Johnson "cleanly written ", i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact, with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: - "In eight terse lines has Phædrus told (So frugal were the bards of old ) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space. " It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of "grace or elegance. " -- Terse "ly, adv. -- Terse "ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

terse

terse |tərs tərs | ▶adjective ( terser, tersest ) sparing in the use of words; abrupt: a terse statement. DERIVATIVES terse ly adverb, terse ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin tersus ‘wiped, polished, ’ from the verb tergere. The original sense was ‘polished, trim, spruce, ’ (relating to language ) ‘polished, polite, ’ hence ‘concise and to the point ’ (late 18th cent ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

terse

terse |təːs | ▶adjective ( terser, tersest ) sparing in the use of words; abrupt: a terse statement. DERIVATIVES tersely adverb, terseness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin tersus ‘wiped, polished ’, from the verb tergere. The original sense was ‘polished, trim, spruce ’, (relating to language ) ‘polished, polite ’, hence ‘concise and to the point ’ (late 18th cent. ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

terse

terse adjective we were offended by her terse answers: brief, short, to the point, concise, succinct, crisp, pithy, incisive, trenchant, short and sweet, laconic, elliptical; brusque, abrupt, curt, clipped, blunt, pointed, ungracious, gruff. ANTONYMS long-winded, polite.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

terse

terse adjective he issued a terse warning: curt, brusque, abrupt, clipped, blunt, gruff, short, brief, concise, succinct, to the point, compact, crisp, pithy, incisive, short and sweet, economical, laconic, epigrammatic, summary, condensed. ANTONYMS long-winded, verbose, rambling; polite. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD terse, brusque, abrupt, curt See brusque . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

terse

terse /təː r s /形容詞 〈返事 伝言などが 〉ぶっきらぼうな, 無愛想な .t é rse ly 副詞 t é rse ness 名詞