| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| ABRUPT | Terse | |
| LACONIC | Terse | |
| MANOFFEWWORDS | Terse fellow | |
| BRIEF | Concise; terse; succinct. | |
| TERSE | Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. | |
| APOPHTHEGM | A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim. | |
| POINTED | Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. | |
| SENTENTIOUS | Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. | |
| DIFFUSE | Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. | |