Curt
[kɜːt] or [kɝt]
Definition
(a.) Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise; as, curt limits; a curt answer.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Short (usually in an ill sense, implying crustiness), brief, concise, terse, laconic.
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Definition
adj. short: concise: discourteously brief or summary.—adj. Curt′āte shortened or reduced; applied to the distance of a planet from the sun or earth reduced to the plane of the ecliptic.—n. Curtā′tion.—adv. Curt′ly.—n. Curt′ness.
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Examples
- She wished that he would go, as he had once spoken of doing, instead of sitting there, answering with curt sentences all the remarks she made. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Paul would not stand any prolonged experience of this sort of dialogue I knew; but he certainly merited a sample of the curt and arid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This curt reply brought the Earl in person to Becky's apartment; but he could get no more success than the first ambassador. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Lydgate uttered this speech in the curt hammering way with which we usually try to nail down a vague mind to imperative facts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Melba