terse Synonyms

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