单词 | terseness |
释义 | terseness (once / 27047 pages) n WORD FAMILY terse: tersely, terseness, terser, tersest USAGE EXAMPLES“It holds up,” the bespectacled director says with his usual, charming terseness. Slate(Dec 18, 2016) Instead, seemingly innocent comments sting as painfully as insults, and are funnier for their terseness. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) “It was fine,” Nicholas said, with a terseness familiar to any parent of a middle schooler. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) n a neatly short and concise expressive style Ant|Hypo|Hyper verboseness, verbosity an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words conciseness, concision, pithiness, succinctness terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words crispnessan expressive style that is direct and to the point brevitythe use of brief expressions laconicism, laconismterseness of expression expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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