Hardly talkative
The crossword clue "Hardly talkative" is answered by TERSE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TERSE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERSE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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
- Compendious - used 12 times, most recently in 2008
- 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
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.
- Hardly any - SCANT, used 24 times
- Talkative - GABBY, used 15 times
- Hardly hidden - OVERT, used 13 times
- Hardly oblivious - AWARE, used 12 times
- Hardly sufficient - SCANT, used 12 times
- Hardly enough - SCANT, used 11 times
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