Словарь синонимов английского языка - terse

(adj) 1. concise, brief, short, compact, pithy, succinct, summary, laconic, short and sweet, to the point, sententious, crisp, epigrammatic, aphoristic; distilled, condensed, compendious, abbreviated, abridged, shortened, concentrated: He gave a terse accound of what had happened. 2. abrupt, curt, short, brusque, blunt, gruff, bluff, ungracious, petulant, tart, rude: His answer was terse and unhelpful.