Crossword-Solution: TERSE 5 letters, 263 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TERSE	anagram	EREST, ERETS, ERSTE, ERTES, ESTER, ETRES, REEST, RESET, RESTE, SERET, SETER, STEER, STERE, TEERS, TERES, TREES, TRESE, TSERE

We have 263 clues for the answer “TERSE”

Clue	Answers
*Far from wordy (... the first 3 in this one)	1 answer
Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"	1 answer
Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments	1 answer
Antisesquipedalian	1 answer
As in a nutshell	1 answer
Bluntly put	1 answer
Brief and pithy	1 answer
Brief in one's words	1 answer
Brief in using words	1 answer
Brief, like a tweet	1 answer
Brief, like many tweets	1 answer
Brief; abrupt	1 answer
Briefly stated	1 answer
Briefly worded	1 answer
Briefly worded, like a tweet	1 answer
Brusquely short	1 answer
By no means long-winded	1 answer
Certainly not verbose	1 answer
Coldly brief	1 answer
Concise in wording	1 answer
Concisely worded	1 answer
Curtly brief	1 answer
Economical wordwise	1 answer
Economical in words	1 answer
Economically put	1 answer
Effectively concise	1 answer
Efficiently expressed, maybe	1 answer
Efficiently worded	1 answer
Elliptical, in a way	1 answer
Eschewing loquacity	1 answer
Facetious response to "Describe yourself in three adjectives"	1 answer
Far from diffuse	1 answer
Far from flowery	1 answer
Far from ioquacious	1 answer
Far from long-winded	1 answer
Far from prolix	1 answer
Far from talkative	1 answer
Far from verbose	1 answer
Far from windy	1 answer
Free of superfluity	1 answer
Hardly circumlocutious	1 answer
Hardly flowery	1 answer
Hardly gabby	1 answer
Hardly long-winded	1 answer
Hardly prolix	1 answer
Hardly rambling	1 answer
Hardly sesquipedalian	1 answer
Hardly talkative	1 answer
Hardly verbose	1 answer
Hardly wandering	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EEART

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble TERSE 5-letter words that start with T 5-letter words that end in E 5-letter words containing ER 5-letter words containing SE 5-letter words with T and E

Sentences with TERSE (5)

Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and on-line.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

After their first meeting in Athens, Alex had taken on a succinct if not terse tone in all communications.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Jacot gave a few terse orders to the sergeant who saluted, turned upon his heel and returned to the men.

The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

When it is deemed appropriate." Henry was terse in his reply, warning that no further questions from the other members of the committee would be tolerated.

Wild Justice Ruth M. Sprague 1994

Mere pluck, though not in the least sublime, Is wiser than blank dismay, Since "No sparrow can fall before its time", And we're valued higher than they; So hope for the best and leave the rest In charge of a stronger hand, Like the honest boors in the far-off west, With the formula terse and grand.

Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008

Quotes with TERSE (3)

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whi…

Brian Doyle The Wet Engine: Exploring Mad Wild Miracle of Heart

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.

Ursula K. Le Guin Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 960 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).