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Definition of Terse
1. Adjective. Brief and to the point; effectively cut short. "Short and terse and easy to understand"
Definition of Terse
1. a. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
Definition of Terse
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of speech or style) Brief, concise, to the point. ¹
3. Adjective. Abruptly or brusquely short. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Terse
1. succinct [adj TERSER, TERSEST] : TERSELY [adv] - See also: succinct
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terse
Literary usage of Terse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"652 (R.) — Lat.4>Used also in the sense of smooth: 'many stones also. terse and
smooth ; ' Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Errors, b. ii. c. 4. J 3. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... ad Erratica Piscatoria," and has a dedication in heroic terse •" to my dear
Saviour.' He denies that the date of Christ's birth can be fixed. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Nevertheless, there is a musical senten- tiousness in his terse rhymes, and an
air of business about them ; his Pegasus tugged over the clods with his ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A terse STATEMENT OP THE DOCTRINE OP FORCES. [Introduction to " The Correlation
and Conservation of Forces." 1865.] the close of the last century the human ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"A terse STATEMENT OF THE DOCTRINE OF FORCES. [Introduction to " The Correlation
and Conservation of ..."
6. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... if it is a short, terse and pointed document, setting forth in simple language
your political motives and aims in a general way, and that the crowding ..."
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