curt
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curt¹
- /kɝt/ US
- /kɜːt/ UK
Sounds like Kurt · Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
adjective curter · curtest
- Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. 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
- Short or concise.
verb curts · curting · curted
- To cut, cut short, shorten. Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
Curt²
proper noun
- A short form of the male given name Curtis
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: terse, laconic, concise, short, brusk, brusque, crisp, discourteous, manual, handbook, account, snippy, dry, kurt, manuel, succinct
Translations
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adj brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
| Español | seco, cortante, brusco, parco, telegráfico, escueto |
|---|---|
| Português | brusco, seco, áspero |
| Français | abrupt, sommaire |
| Deutsch | brüsk, knapp, kurzangebunden, barsch, schroff |
| Русский | отрывистый otryvistyj, немногословный nemnogoslovnyj, односложный odnosložnyj |
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title = {curt},
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