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terseness

/turs/US // tɜrs //UK // (tɜːs) //

激烈程度,强度,紧张程度,紧张性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    ters·er, ters·est.

    • : neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
    • : abruptly concise; curt; brusque.

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Examples

  • It has the terseness of the French, without the grandiloquence of the Spanish, being derived directly from the Latin.

  • In spite of the curt terseness of the word, Nancy quite understood the anxiety that lay behind that short "well?"

  • "No, Gregory; it is not," Mrs. Forrester returned with some terseness, for she felt his remark to be unbecoming.

  • He scarcely ever reached again this terseness and vivacity of style, and this entrain.

  • "His methods do not lack terseness," remarked Lewes, when he and Challis were out of earshot of the cottage.