using few words; concise
brusque or curt
tersely adv
terseness noun
Latin tersus clean, neat, past part. of tergēre to wipe off. Orig in the senses ‘trim, neat’, of language ‘polished, polite’, hence ‘to the point, concise, brusque’
| 单词 | terse |
| 释义 | terse |
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