(curtness)
51snippiness — n. sharpness, curtness, rudeness …
52terseness — terse·ness || tÉœrsnɪs /tÉœËs n. conciseness, succinctness, curtness, abruptness …
53curt — adjective rudely brief. Derivatives curtly adverb curtness noun Origin ME (in the sense short, shortened ): from L. curtus cut short, abridged …
54curt — adjective replying with very few words in a way that does not seem polite: With a curt nod, he turned away and sat down. curtly adverb curtness noun (U) …
55discourtesy — noun these parents seemed unfazed by the discourtesy of their children Syn: rudeness, impoliteness, bad manners, incivility, disrespect, ungraciousness, churlishness, boorishness, ill breeding, uncouthness, crassness; insolence, impudence,… …
56concise — concise, terse, succinct, laconic, summary, pithy, compendious are comparable when meaning briefly stated or presented or given to or manifesting brevity in statement or expression. A person is concise who speaks or writes briefly ; a thing is… …
57loquacity — loquacity, loquaciousness garrulity, volubility, glibness, talkativeness (see under TALKATIVE) Analogous words: chattering or chatter, chatting or chat, gabbing or gab, prating or prate, jabbering or jabber (see CHAT vb): fluency, articulateness …
58loquaciousness — loquacity, loquaciousness garrulity, volubility, glibness, talkativeness (see under TALKATIVE) Analogous words: chattering or chatter, chatting or chat, gabbing or gab, prating or prate, jabbering or jabber (see CHAT vb): fluency, articulateness …
59masterful — masterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative are comparable when they apply to persons or their acts, utterances, and demands and mean governed by, or manifesting, a strong tendency to impose one s will on another. One is masterful… …
60precipitate — adj Precipitate, headlong, abrupt, impetuous, hasty, sudden as applied to persons or their acts or be havior denote characterized by excessive haste and unexpectedness. Precipitate especially stresses lack of due deliberation; sometimes it… …
