Terse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TERSE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• succinct
• sparing in the use of words; abrupt
• neat and concise
• brief and to the point; effectively cut short

Words related to TERSE

tersely10 terseness9 tersenesses11 terser6 tersest7

How to use TERSE in a sentence

• Thereupon Gifford gave him a terse account of the events and the chance which had led him into the tower and to be a secret witness of what happened there.
• Dealing with one who, like himself, was learned in the law he had, to save trouble, written a terse declaration which he knew should be quite acceptable.
• The verses gain strength as they advance, and the diction is terse and keen.
• The labour of expanding a terse sentence to its full meaning is often greater than the labour of picking out the meaning from a diffuse and loitering passage.
• There are moments at which his writing takes the terse, vigorous tone of his talk.
• His style is terse, elevated, and elegant, and the work is full of elaborate and most minute detail.
• His vein of satire was keen, terse, and powerful, beyond any that has since been displayed.
• Hence the Russian speech, like the Russian thought, is direct, terse and almost crude in its elemental power.
• If Gallic wit convince you scarce, His Grace of Bucks has made a farce, And you, whose comic wit is terse all, Can hardly fall below rehearsal.
• Turning to Sconda she gave a few terse orders, and when the Indian had received them, he wheeled his horse and headed him for the village.
• The police did not speak except for a few terse words among themselves and a barked order to march, delivered to the prisoners.
• Then in terse, passionate phrases the elder man told how he had loved the gentle Guba for years, always hesitating to declare his passion lest the lady should scorn him.
• Casting a baleful glance at Jane, Marian complied with the terse invitation.
• The terse expressive jargon of the race track, its dry humor just beneath its hard surface, might delight the unsophisticated, but not Blister.
• Every paragraph is short, terse and to the point, giving perfect clearness to the discussions at all points.
• The thing that mainly struck me was his terse remark that the enemy originated the idea of the march to the sea.
• Terse and to the point were the questions and answers exchanged between the military arm of the government and the quarantine authorities of Montana.
• His narrative had the lucidity of a terse judge reviewing evidence.
• I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine.
• In terse phrase he had summed up his view of the situation.
• He gave orders in his own peculiar, terse, rapid way, and he did not permit them to be questioned.
• They are familiar without coarseness, and terse without obscurity.
• His writings are all interesting, terse, precise, and truthful, but lack the glow that comes with a sympathetic and spiritual outlook on life.
• Save for a wave of applause at the mention of American charity, the terse, reverent address was heard in silence.
• Hilbery, and thus terse and learned and altogether out of keeping with the rest, but Mrs.
• The quick executive movement of a capable servant is felt in the terse words short sentences and swift action of the story.
• He expressed himself well, in terse words and phrases.
• Certain terse remarks of the crude and practical Mrs.
• And that gospel ends in them, at the eighth Terse of the last chapter.
• You have an intensity of emotion and thought which makes your mind terse, sharp, spicy and clear.

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