Definition of tersest Tersest
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What does tersest mean?
Part of speech
🔤- tersest, adjective, superlative of terse.
WordNet
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| terse - brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand" | ||
| crisp, curt, laconic | ||
| concise expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- terse (superl.)
Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. - terse (superl.)
Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. - terse (superl.)
Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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terse
Abruptly or brusquely short.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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terse
tėrs, adj. compact or concise, with smoothness or elegance: neat.—adv. Terse′ly.—ns. Terse′ness, conciseness, brevity; Ter′sion, act of wiping. [L. tersus—tergēre, tersum, to rub clean.]
