curt

See also Curt

English

Etymology

From the Latin curtus (“shortened”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)t

Adjective

curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVIII and XIX:

     Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it [...]

2. Short or concise

Synonyms

• (terse to the point of being rude): abrupt, blunt, brusque

Translations

brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude

• Bulgarian: лаконичен (bg) (lakoničen)
• Hungarian: kurta (hu)

• Russian: отрывистый (ru) (otryvistyj)

short or concise

• Bulgarian: кратък (bg) (kratǎk), сбит (bg) (sbit)
• Hungarian: rövid (hu), rövidített (hu)

• Russian: лаконичный (ru) (lakoničnyj), сжатый (ru) (sžatyj)

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Translations to be checked

• German: barsch (1)
• Dutch: kortaf

• Italian: sbrigativo

Derived terms

• curtly
• curtness
• curtail

Anagrams

• crut

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Old French

Noun

curt f (oblique plural curts, nominative singular curt, nominative plural curts)

1. Alternative form of cort.