terse

terse is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
2. superlative. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
3. superlative. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
4. adjective. brief and to the point; effectively cut short

   "a crisp retort"

   "a response so curt as to be almost rude"

   Synonyms: crisp, curt, laconic

Synonyms

crisp, curt, laconic

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in terse:

ester, estre, reest, reset, steer, stere, stree, teres, trees, tsere

Common word forms

terser, tersely, tersest, terseness

Words from these letters

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