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terse

adjective/tɜːs/

C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Brief and to the point, sometimes to the point of curtness.

His terse replies made it hard to obtain a full symptom history.

Similar: curt, clipped

Topic: Clinical consultation in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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