TERSE

adj. 1 concise, brief, short, compact, pithy, succinct, summary, laconic, short and sweet, to the point, sententious, crisp, epigrammatic, aphoristic; distilled, condensed, compendious, abbreviated, abridged, shortened, concentrated He gave a terse account of what had happened 2 abrupt, curt, short, brusque, blunt, gruff, bluff, ungracious, petulant, tart, rude His answer was terse and unhelpful