Answer: TERSE
TERSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted over 20 times. There are related answers (shown below). Try defining TERSE with Google.
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Elliptical
- To the point
- Summary
- Cut short
- Compact
- Abrupt
- Short
- Brusque
- Concise
- Succinct
- Polished
- Curt
- Pointed
- Brief
- Pithy
- Clipped
- Laconic
- Not wordy
- Blunt
- Brief and to the point
- Concentrated
- Short-winded
- Short and sweet
- Of few words
- Far from wordy
- Like this clue
- Short and to the point
- Not windy
- Not very vocal
- Far from verbose
- Brief in speech
- Hardly wordy
- Concise in speech
- Using few words
- Not verbose
- Brief and pithy
- Hardly long-winded
- Compendious
- No-nonsense
- Short-spoken
- Not long-winded
- Wasting no words
- To-the-point
- Short and not so sweet
- Hardly loquacious
- Crisp
- Certainly not verbose
- Short and snappy
- Right to the point
- Not saying much
- Hardly windy
- Far from windy
- Far from prolix
- Epigrammatic
- Cryptic
- Brief in one's words
- Not very wordy
- Not inclined to go on
- Not chatty
- Like some reprimands
- Hardly talkative
- Hardly chatty
- Far from talkative
- Far from long-winded
- By no means long-winded
- Without wasting words
- Straight to the point
- Short and maybe sweet
- Not roundabout
- Not at all wordy
- Not at all windy
- Far from flowery
- Effectively concise
- Concise in wording
- Briefly stated
- Without wasted words
- Succinctly worded
- Sparing of words
- Short and to-the-point
- Saying little
- Quick and to the point
- Not very chatty
- Not flowery
- Neatly concise
- Like headlines
- Lacking in detail
- Far from loquacious
- Clipped, in a way
- Briefly worded
- Brief, like a tweet
- Breviloquent
- As in a nutshell
- Without elaboration
- Wasting few words
- Verbally sparing
- Unwordy
- Succinct in speech
- Shortwinded
- Short, but probably not sweet
- Short and sweet?
- Short and sharp
- Short and probably not sweet
- Short and direct
- Short and blunt
- Sententious
- Not going on
- Not given to speeches
- Not drawn out
- Not at all talkative
- Most definitely dissimilar to this clue
- Monosyllabic, perhaps
- Low on word count
- Like tweets, by necessity
- Like a one-word reply
- In a nutshell
- Hardly verbose
- Hardly sesquipedalian
- Hardly garrulous
- Concisely worded
- Worded concisely
- Without extra verbiage
- Without any unnecessary proliferation of verbiage
- Without any embroidery
- With few words
- Very short
- Unpadded
- Unlike this clue, which is far too wordy and could have simply been just "curt"
- Unlike filibusters
- U-turn from verbose
- Term often applied to Hemingway
- Succintly worded
- Succinctly put
- Succinct.
- Succinct, as sentences
- Sparingly worded
- Sparing in speech
- Snippy, in a way
- Short, concise and to the point (unlike this clue)
- Short on words
- Short and sweet.
- Short and sweet, as speeches go
- Short and pithy
- Short and often not sweet
- Short and maybe not sweet
- Saying little on purpose
- Pithy.
- Pauciloquent
- Orally economical
- Opposite of verbose
- Opposite of prolix
- Not windy?
- Not wandering
- Not very long
- Not saying very much
- Not rambling
- Not overly vocal
- Not longwinded
- Not likely to run on
- Not garrulous
- Not at all overly wordy, unlike this clue
- Not at all overly wordy, rather unlike this clue itself
- Not at all garrulous
- Linguistically sparing
- Like tweets
- Like this clue if you removed all but the first three words
- Like the review "Hated it," e.g.
- Like the answer "No."
- Like telegrams, typically
- Like one-word responses
- Like one-word replies
- Like one-word answers
- Like newspaper headlines, typically
- Like Hemingway's prose
- Like Coolidge's utterances
- Like Coolidge, famously
- Like Calvin Coolidge, famously
- Like Calvin Coolidge
- Like aphorisms
- Like a two-word reply
- Like a one-word response to "How are you?"
- Like a one-word email
- In telegraphese, e.g.
- In headlinese, say
- Hardly rambling
- Hardly prolix
- Hardly gabby
- Hardly circumlocutious
- Free of superfluity
- Far from word
- Far from diffuse
- Facetious response to "Describe yourself in three adjectives"
- Eschewing loquacity
- Elliptical, in a way
- Efficiently worded
- Efficiently expressed, maybe
- Economically put
- Economical with words
- Economical in words
- Curt.
- Curt — abrupt
- Crisp and brief
- Concise in words spoken
- Concise in one's speech
- Brusquely short
- Briefly worded, like a tweet
- Brief, like many tweets
- Brief, as a reply
- Brief in using words
- Antisesquipedalian
- Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments
- Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"
- 24-hour place to hit the links?
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