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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "tersely"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "terseness"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*terh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "tersus",
"4": "",
"5": "clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse"
},
"expansion": "Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "perfect"
},
"expansion": "perfect",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "passive"
},
"expansion": "passive",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "participle"
},
"expansion": "participle",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "tergō"
},
"expansion": "tergō",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "tergeō",
"3": "",
"4": "to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off"
},
"expansion": "tergeō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*terh₁-",
"4": "",
"5": "to rub; to turn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub; to turn”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin tersus (“clean, cleansed, rubbed or wiped off; neat, spruce; terse”), perfect passive participle of tergō, tergeō (“to clean, cleanse, rub, wipe, wipe off”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub; to turn”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "terser",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "tersest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"1": "er"
},
"expansion": "terse (comparative terser, superlative tersest)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "prolix"
},
{
"word": "verbose"
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{
"word": "wordy"
},
{
"word": "verbose"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1777, [George Riley], The Asses Ears, a Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat's Beard [William Whitehead], London: Printed for G. Riley, […], →OCLC; quoted in “Art. VIII. Asses Ears: A Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat’s Beard. 4to. 6d. Riley. 1777. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume LVI, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], March 1777, →OCLC, page 194",
"text": "In eight terse lines has Phædrus told / (So frugal were the Bards of old) / A Tale of Goats; and clos'd with grace / Plan, Moral, all, in that ſhort space.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1832 September, [John Wilson], “Noctes Ambrosianae. No. LXII.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXII, number CXCVIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 409",
"text": "Your last series contains some of the neatest, tersest, and most unpretendingly original criticism, I have lately met with.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1902, G. W. Parker, “Things and Other Things: Letters to Living Authors—IX. Sir [Arthur] Conan Doyle”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words, London: Isbister and Company Limited […], →OCLC, page 817, column 1",
"text": "The book contains some happily done portrait touches of Napoleon, [...] and this and other aphoristical sentences scattered throughout this volume, [...] form as terse and trenchant a character-sketch of the Emperor as may be found almost anywhere.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1946, Clayton Knight, The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 94",
"text": "Many protested that they had nothing to do with the fighting. At a word from the General the soldiers ripped off the men's shirts and examined the front of their shoulders. If they found bruises that might have been made from the butt of a gun when it had been fired—the terse order was, \"Shoot him!\" And many of the young men of Trujillo had disappeared.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1977, John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion”, in Malcolm Bradbury, editor, The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, Manchester: Manchester University Press by arrangement with Fontana Books; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, page 73",
"text": "[...] [Samuel] Beckett has become virtually mute, musewise, having progressed from marvellously constructed English sentences through terser and terser French ones to the unsyntactical, unpunctuated prose of Comment C'est and 'ultimately' to wordless mimes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1979 August 23, John Richard Harrison, Speaker of the House, Francis Duncan O’Flynn, “[Questions for Oral Answer] Leased Cars—Exemptions”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament (House of Representatives), volume 425, Wellington: P. D. Hasselberg, government printer, published 1980, →OCLC, page 2480",
"text": "Mr SPEAKER: If the honourable member could be terse. / Mr O'Flynn: I shall be very terse. It may be my fault, Mr Speaker, but I doubt if you have quite appreciated the point.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-10",
"text": "Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, \"for the next 40 years\", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point."
],
"id": "en-terse-en-adj-sauDVnNt",
"links": [
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"speech",
"speech"
],
[
"style",
"style#Noun"
],
[
"brief",
"brief#Adjective"
],
[
"concise",
"concise"
],
[
"to the point",
"to the point"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point."
],
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{
"word": "concise"
},
{
"word": "succinct"
},
{
"word": "concise"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"translations": [
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sbit",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "сбит"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stegnat",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "стегнат"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡短"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnduǎn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简短"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡潔"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnjié",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简洁"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡明"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnmíng",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简明"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "精練"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīngliàn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "精练"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "緊湊"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jǐncòu",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "紧凑"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "洗練"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xǐliàn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "洗练"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "strohý"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "bondig"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "pittig"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "niukkasanainen"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "laconique"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šeḳumšuli",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "შეკუმშული"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "knapp"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "markig"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "prägnant"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikós",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "λακωνικός"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikí",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λακωνική"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikó",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "λακωνικό"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "litós",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λιτός"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lití",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λιτή"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "litó",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "λιτό"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "strongúlos",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "στρογγύλος"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "strongúlē",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "στρογγῠ́λη"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "strongúlon",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "στρογγῠ́λον"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "mitbhāṣī",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "મિતભાષી"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "לקוני"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "לקונית"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "tömör"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "stuttur og gagnorður"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "stuttur og laggóður"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "cóngarach"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "gonta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asciutto"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "asciutta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "essenziale"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "laconico"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laconica"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scabro"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scabra"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stringato"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stringata"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sintetico"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sintetica"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kanmei na",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡明な"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adductus"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "adducta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "adductum"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "contractus"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "contracta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "contractum"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zbíen",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "зби́ен"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "stégnat",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "сте́гнат"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lákonski",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ла́конски"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jędrny"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakoniczny"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lapidarny"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwięzły"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "concisa"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kóvanyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ко́ваный"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krátkij",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "кра́ткий"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nemnogoslóvnyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "немногосло́вный"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lakoníčnyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "лакони́чный"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 7 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "lacónico"
},
{
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"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
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"ref": "1777, [George Riley], The Asses Ears, a Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat's Beard [William Whitehead], London: Printed for G. Riley, […], →OCLC; quoted in “Art. VIII. Asses Ears: A Fable. Addressed to the Author of The Goat’s Beard. 4to. 6d. Riley. 1777. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume LVI, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], March 1777, →OCLC, page 194",
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"ref": "1902, G. W. Parker, “Things and Other Things: Letters to Living Authors—IX. Sir [Arthur] Conan Doyle”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words, London: Isbister and Company Limited […], →OCLC, page 817, column 1",
"text": "The book contains some happily done portrait touches of Napoleon, [...] and this and other aphoristical sentences scattered throughout this volume, [...] form as terse and trenchant a character-sketch of the Emperor as may be found almost anywhere.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1946, Clayton Knight, The Quest of the Golden Condor, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 94",
"text": "Many protested that they had nothing to do with the fighting. At a word from the General the soldiers ripped off the men's shirts and examined the front of their shoulders. If they found bruises that might have been made from the butt of a gun when it had been fired—the terse order was, \"Shoot him!\" And many of the young men of Trujillo had disappeared.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1977, John Barth, “The Literature of Exhaustion”, in Malcolm Bradbury, editor, The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, Manchester: Manchester University Press by arrangement with Fontana Books; Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, page 73",
"text": "[...] [Samuel] Beckett has become virtually mute, musewise, having progressed from marvellously constructed English sentences through terser and terser French ones to the unsyntactical, unpunctuated prose of Comment C'est and 'ultimately' to wordless mimes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1979 August 23, John Richard Harrison, Speaker of the House, Francis Duncan O’Flynn, “[Questions for Oral Answer] Leased Cars—Exemptions”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): First Session, Thirty-ninth Parliament (House of Representatives), volume 425, Wellington: P. D. Hasselberg, government printer, published 1980, →OCLC, page 2480",
"text": "Mr SPEAKER: If the honourable member could be terse. / Mr O'Flynn: I shall be very terse. It may be my fault, Mr Speaker, but I doubt if you have quite appreciated the point.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-03-10",
"text": "Having attempted to identify a role for the society and its magazine, Quest, \"for the next 40 years\", the society chairman, Rhea Williams, decided it was time to close. She announced the group's demise in a terse message to members following the annual meeting, which just 22 people attended.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point."
],
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"speech",
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"style",
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"brief",
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"concise"
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[
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"to the point"
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{
"word": "succinct"
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{
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]
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{
"ref": "2008, Julia James, The Italian's Rags-to-riches Wife (Bedded by … Blackmail; Harlequin Presents; 2716), Toronto, Ont., New York, N.Y.: Harlequin, page 107",
"text": "'Laura!' The voice halting her was terse. Brusque. She turned. [...] 'Before I go,' he said, and his voice was terse, tighter than ever. 'I want to ensure you understand something.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Zara Cox, Close to The Edge (Mills & Boon Dare), London: Mills & Boon",
"text": "My voice was terser than I intended, but what the hell. The night was turning out to be interesting in some ways and extremely frustrating in others.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt."
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[
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{
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"Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce."
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[
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"US"
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},
{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sbit",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "сбит"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stegnat",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "стегнат"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡短"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnduǎn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "简短"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡潔"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiǎnjié",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡明"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "jiǎnmíng",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "精練"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīngliàn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "精练"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "緊湊"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jǐncòu",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "紧凑"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "洗練"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xǐliàn",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "洗练"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "strohý"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "bondig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "pittig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "niukkasanainen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "laconique"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šeḳumšuli",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "შეკუმშული"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "knapp"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "markig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "prägnant"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikós",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "λακωνικός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikí",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "lakonikó",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "litós",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "λιτός"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "lití",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λιτή"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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},
{
"code": "grc",
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"roman": "strongúlos",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "στρογγύλος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
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"roman": "strongúlē",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "στρογγῠ́λη"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "strongúlon",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "στρογγῠ́λον"
},
{
"code": "gu",
"lang": "Gujarati",
"roman": "mitbhāṣī",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "મિતભાષી"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "לקוני"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
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],
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "tömör"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "stuttur og gagnorður"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "stuttur og laggóður"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "cóngarach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "gonta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asciutto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "asciutta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "essenziale"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "laconico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "laconica"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scabro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scabra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "stringato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stringata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sintetico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sintetica"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kanmei na",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "簡明な"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "adducta"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "adductum"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "contractus"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "contracta"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "contractum"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "zbíen",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "зби́ен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "stégnat",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "сте́гнат"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lákonski",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ла́конски"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jędrny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakoniczny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lapidarny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zwięzły"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "concisa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kóvanyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ко́ваный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krátkij",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "кра́ткий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nemnogoslóvnyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "немногосло́вный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lakoníčnyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "лакони́чный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "conciso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "lacónico"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "koncis"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "kortfattad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "lapidarisk"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "tshig nyung don bsdus pa",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་བསྡུས་པ"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "tshig nyung don tshang",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ཚིག་ཉུང་དོན་ཚང"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "kha nyung",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "ཁ་ཉུང"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "kısa ve öz"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "veciz"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "styslyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "стислий"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nebahatoslivnyj",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "небагатослівний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "brief, concise, to the point — see also brief, concise",
"word": "cyhyrog"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kratǎk",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "кратък"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rjazǎk",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "рязък"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "strohý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "kortfattet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "niukkasanainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "töksähtävä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "laconique"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "lapidaire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "kurz angebunden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "wortkarg"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apótomos",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "απότομος"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bukkirabō na",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "ぶっきらぼうな"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "krátok",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "кра́ток"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "krótki"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "breve"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "curto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "curta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "direto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "direta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lacónico"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "resumido"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sucinto"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sintético"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "odnoslóžnyj",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "односло́жный"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "kràtak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "кра̀так"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "brusco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "lacónico"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "abruptly or brusquely short",
"word": "cộc lốc"
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
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},
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},
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}
],
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},
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}
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{
"categories": [
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"Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
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"Finnish interjections",
"Finnish lemmas",
"Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Finnish/erse",
"Rhymes:Finnish/erse/2 syllables"
],
"glosses": [
"hi, hello"
],
"links": [
[
"hi",
"hi"
],
[
"hello",
"hello"
]
],
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"humorous"
]
}
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{
"ipa": "/ˈterseˣ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪e̞rs̠e̞(ʔ)]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-erse"
}
],
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}
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"categories": [
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"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French non-lemma forms",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with homophones",
"French verb forms"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "verb form"
},
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"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of terser:",
"first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"terser",
"terser#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"inflection of terser:",
"second-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"terser",
"terser#French"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/tɛʁs/"
},
{
"homophone": "tersent"
},
{
"homophone": "terses"
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
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"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms",
"Italian verb forms"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "terse",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "tergere"
}
],
"glosses": [
"third-person singular past historic of tergere"
],
"links": [
[
"tergere",
"tergere#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"historic",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms"
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "past participle form",
"g": "f-p"
},
"expansion": "terse f pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "terso"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of terso"
],
"links": [
[
"terso",
"terso#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"participle",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
{
"categories": [
"Italian adjective forms",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "adjective form",
"g": "f-p"
},
"expansion": "terse f pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "terso"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of terso"
],
"links": [
[
"terso",
"terso#Italian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "participle form"
},
"expansion": "terse",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin participle forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "tersus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative masculine singular of tersus"
],
"links": [
[
"tersus",
"tersus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "adjective form",
"g": "f-p"
},
"expansion": "terse f pl",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Venetian",
"lang_code": "vec",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Venetian adjective forms",
"Venetian entries with incorrect language header",
"Venetian non-lemma forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "terso"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of terso"
],
"links": [
[
"terso",
"terso#Venetian"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "terse"
}
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