| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| terse |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  tûrs |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: ters·er, ters·est
Brief and to the point; effectively concise: a terse one-word answer. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin tersus, past participle of terg re, to cleanse. | | OTHER FORMS: | terse ly —ADVERB
terseness —NOUN
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