Answer: TERSE
TERSE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 167 times.
Referring Clues:
- Short-winded
- Short and maybe sweet
- Not windy
- Clipped
- Brusque
- Antisesquipedalian
- Elliptical
- To the point
- Pauciloquent
- Like headlines
- Breviloquent
- Not going on
- Hardly prolix
- Like Coolidge's utterances
- Succinct
- Not wordy
- Not at all windy
- In headlinese, say
- Hardly wordy
- Abrupt
- Concise
- Not wandering
- Hardly sesquipedalian
- Not saying much
- Short and maybe not sweet
- Far from windy
- Brief
- Unpadded
- Short and often not sweet
- Curt
- Not at all garrulous
- Short and sweet
- Pithy
- Not verbose
- Sparing of words
- Neither wordy, verbose, longwinded, loquacious, nor like this clue
- Certainly not verbose
- By no means long-winded
- Succinctly worded
- Laconic
- Hardly chatty
- Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments
- Not drawn out
- Like aphorisms
- Far from prolix
- Brief and pithy
- Not inclined to go on
- Hardly long-winded
- Short
- Hardly gabby
- Far from flowery
- Not garrulous
- Of few words
- Brief and to the point
- Briefly stated
- Wasting no words
- Using few words
- Shortwinded
- No-nonsense
- Not rambling
- Not roundabout
- Right to the point
- Without wasting words
- Effectively concise
- Compendious
- Short and snappy
- Short and to the point
- Without elaboration
- Low on word count
- Not chatty
- To-the-point
- Brief in speech
- Hardly talkative
- Short and to-the-point
- Hardly loquacious
- Short-spoken
- Like the review "Hated it," e.g.
- Unlike filibusters
- Short on words
- Far from verbose
- Like Coolidge, famously
- Not flowery
- Hardly windy
- Far from wordy
- Without any embroidery
- Quick and to the point
- Like Hemingway's prose
- Not very vocal
- Far from loquacious
- Compact
- Far from ioquacious
- Far from diffuse
- Unwordy
- Like telegrams, typically
- Rudely brief
- Laconic
- Short and direct
- Not long-winded
- Not longwinded
- Hardly wandering
- Adhering to Strunk and White's advice "Omit needless words"
- Without wasted words
- Far from talkative
- Like tweets, by necessity
- Elliptical, in a way
- Concise in speech
- Succinct in speech
- Short and probably not sweet
- Hardly rambling
- Coldly brief
- Crisp
- Epigrammatic
- Monosyllabic, perhaps
- Like one-word answers
- Hardly verbose
- As in a nutshell
- In a nutshell
- Not very chatty
- Briefly worded
- Not at all wordy
- Like some reprimands
- Like newspaper headlines, typically
- Like the answer "No."
- Facetious response to "Describe yourself in three adjectives"
- Not overly vocal
- Short, but probably not sweet
- Unlike a 17-Across
- Like tweets
- Concise in wording
- Brief; abrupt
- Like Calvin Coolidge
- Far from long-winded
- Economical in words
- Saying little on purpose
- Term often applied to Hemingway
- Succinctly put
- Short and not so sweet
- Pointed
- Briefly worded, like a tweet
- In telegraphese
- Brief, like many tweets
- Worded concisely
- Brief, like a tweet
- Brief in one's words
- Short, concise and to the point (unlike this clue)
- Short and sharp
- Free of superfluity
- Saying little
- Opposite of verbose
- Lacking in detail
- Like one-word replies
- Snippy, in a way
- Not at all overly wordy, unlike this clue
- Wasting few words
- Like a one-word email
- Most definitely dissimilar to this clue
- Cut short
- Not given to speeches
- In few words
- Short and blunt
- Like a one-word response to how are you?
- Like the responses of "yes" or "no"
- Hardly flowery
- Like a one-word reply
- Concisely worded
- Hardly windy?
- At a loss for words?
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 29, 2025
- New York Times - September 27, 2025
- LA Times - September 09, 2025
- LA Times - June 07, 2025
- USA Today - May 29, 2025
- LA Times - May 27, 2025
- USA Today - April 25, 2025
- New York Times - March 19, 2025
- LA Times - February 14, 2025
- LA Times - January 05, 2025
- USA Today - January 03, 2025
- USA Today - December 18, 2024
- LA Times - October 03, 2024
- LA Times - September 16, 2024
- New York Times - August 06, 2024
- LA Times - May 28, 2024
- New York Times - May 10, 2024
- New York Times - April 28, 2024
- New York Times - February 01, 2024
- USA Today - December 15, 2023
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