Meanings
curt1
adjectivecurt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)
comparative curter · superlative curtest
- Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
1 more example
Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […]
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC - Short or concise.
verbcurt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)
present singular third person curts · participle present curting · participle past curted · past curted
- obsoleterareTo cut, cut short, shorten.
Curting thy life, hee takes thy Card away.
1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC
Curt2
proper noun
- A short form of the male given name Curtis
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivemarked by rude or peremptory shortness
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian лаконичен, кратък
- лаконичен (lakoničen)brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- кратък (kratăk)short or concise
- сбит (sbit)short or concise
Catalan brusc, eixut
- bruscbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- eixutbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
Czech úsečný, odměřený
- úsečnýbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- odměřenýbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- strohýbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- strohýshort or concise
- bryskníshort or concise
- stručnýshort or concise
Finnish töykeä, tyly
- töykeäbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- tylybrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- lyhytshort or concise
- tiivisshort or concise
- niukkasanainenshort or concise
French abrupt, sommaire
- abruptbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- sommairebrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
German brüsk, knapp
- brüskbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- knappbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- kurzangebundenbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- barschbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- schroffbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- kurzshort or concise
- kurzgefasstshort or concise
Hungarian kurta, rövid
- kurtabrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- rövidshort or concise
- rövidítettshort or concise
- tömörshort or concise
Irish gearr-abartha, gearrbhéalach
- gearr-abarthabrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- gearrbhéalachbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
Portuguese brusco, seco
- bruscobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- secobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- ásperobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- curtoshort or concise
- concisoshort or concise
- sucintoshort or concise
Russian отрывистый, немногословный
- отрывистый (otryvistyj)brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- немногословный (nemnogoslovnyj)brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- односложный (odnosložnyj)brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- лаконичный (lakoničnyj)short or concise
- сжатый (sžatyj)short or concise
Spanish seco, cortante
- secobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- cortantebrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- bruscobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- parcobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- telegráficobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- escuetobrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- cortoshort or concise
- concisoshort or concise
- parcoshort or concise
- lacónicoshort or concise
- escuetoshort or concise
- sucintoshort or concise
Swedish brysk, tvär
- bryskbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- tvärbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
- korthuggenbrief or terse, especially to the point of being rude
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with curt
shirtexpertalertconcertinsertconvertdeserthurtdirtadvertKurtdessertassertBertBurtflirtrevertexertvertdivertbirtinertwortovert
All rhymes →Sounds the same
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
curt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curt
MLA
“curt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curt.
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