terse Synonyms

crisp concise compact curt neat laconic offhand snappish monosyllabic snap short-spoken short sharp rude pointed pithy pithily sententious snappy not protracted in few words down to brass tacks compendiary boiled down the point unprolonged short and sweet briefer breviloquent uncivil trenchant testy summary succinct marrowy little lean compendious clipped brusque brief blunt bluff apothegmatize apothegmatic apophthegmatic aphoristic analectic abrupt abridged