Compendious

The answer

TERSE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERSE answer page.

Used 12 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2008; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

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• SUMMARY (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TERSE

Every other clue in this collection answered by TERSE, most used first.

• To the point - used 194 times, most recently in 2026
• Succinct - used 124 times, most recently in 2026
• Concise - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
• Pithy - used 59 times, most recently in 2025
• Laconic - used 48 times, most recently in 2025
• Not wordy - used 43 times, most recently in 2026
• Brusque - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Clipped - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Curt - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Short and sweet - used 35 times, most recently in 2025
• Short and to the point - used 32 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly wordy - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Of few words - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Short - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Short-winded - used 22 times, most recently in 2024
• Brief - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Far from wordy - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Brief and to the point - used 19 times, most recently in 2024
• Using few words - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Right to the point - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
• Far from verbose - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Not verbose - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Not windy - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Abrupt - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Brief in speech - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly long-winded - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Brief and pithy - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• Not long-winded - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Hardly windy - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Not very chatty - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Short and snappy - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Wasting no words - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Concise in speech - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Concise in wording - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Epigrammatic - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Far from prolix - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Short and probably not sweet - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Short-spoken - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Succinctly worded - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Breviloquent - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• Brief in one's words - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Briefly worded - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• By no means long-winded - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Far from long-winded - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Far from windy - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Hardly loquacious - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Hardly talkative - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Lock of hair - TRESS, used 334 times
• Spud - TATER, used 314 times
• Lukewarm - TEPID, used 252 times
• Doctrine - TENET, used 234 times
• Rich cake - TORTE, used 234 times
• Characteristic - TRAIT, used 226 times

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