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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cross |
| Synonyms: | angry, cantankerous, crabby, cranky, curt, irritable, touchy |
| Main Entry: | incommunicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taciturn |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, incommunicative, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, tightlipped, uncommunicable, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
| Main Entry: | incommunicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taciturn |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, incommunicable, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, tightlipped, uncommunicable, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
| Main Entry: | marrowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pithy |
| Synonyms: | aphoristic, cogent, compact, concise, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, epigrammatical, expressive, honed, laconic, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant, succinct, terse, to the point, trenchant |
| Main Entry: | short-spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt |
| Synonyms: | blunt, brief, brusque, crude, crusty, curt, direct, discourteous, gruff, impetuous, impolite, matter-of-fact, rough, short, snappy, snippy, uncivil, ungracious |
| Main Entry: | tightlipped |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taciturn |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold*, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, incommunicable, incommunicative, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, uncommunicable, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncommunicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taciturn |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold*, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, incommunicable, incommunicative, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, tightlipped, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unforbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impatient |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse, headlong, hot under collar, hot-tempered, impetuous, indignant, intolerant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, on pins and needles, quick-tempered, racing one's motor, restless, ripe*, snappy, straining, sudden, testy, thirsty, unindulgent, vehement, violent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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Adjectives: |
brachyskelic, brief, commatic, compact, compendious, concise, curt, curtailed of its fair proportion, dumpy, fubsy, improcerous, little, oblate, pug, runtish, scrimp, shorn, short, short by, short-waisted, spuddy, squab, squabbish, squabby, squat, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, summary, thickset, undersized
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