curt
/kɜːt/US/kɝt/
curt adjective: brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
Adjective
curt (comparative curter, superlative curtest)
- Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
- 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...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
- Short or concise.
Verb
curt (third-person singular simple present curts, present participle curting, simple past and past participle curted)
Proper noun capitalized: Curt
Curt
- A short form of the male given name Curtis
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
curt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
curt in Hindi
- curt, blunt
- रूखा rūkhā
curt in Tamil
- சுருக்கமான, சுருக்கென்ற, வெடுக்கென்ற
curt in Malayalam
- സംക്ഷിപ്തമായ, ചുരുക്കിപ്പറയപ്പെട്ട, ഹ്രസ്വമായ, കാര്യമാത്രമായ
curt in Kannada
- ಬಿಗುಮಾನದ, ಹ್ರಸ್ವವಾದ, ಚಿಕ್ಕ, ಅತಿ ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ, ಮೊಟಕಾದ, ಕಡಮೆ ಮಾತಿನ
Synonyms of curt
Forms of curt
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | curter |
| superlative | curtest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | curts |
| present participle | curting |
| past participle | curted |
| past | curted |
Origin of curt
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
Words formed from curt
Words that rhyme with curt
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- pervert
- advert
- alert
- divert
- inert
- avert
- concert
- deconvert
- girt
- lirt
- shirt
- spurt
- subvert
- vert
- wort
- blurt
- chert
- desert
- dessert
- exert
- introvert
- Leaving Cert
- overt
- red alert
- sturt
- wert
- ambivert
- ambiverts
- apert
- Baie Verte
- begirt
- BERT
- birt
- dissert
- extrovert
- gert
- gurt
- insert
- Kurt
- pirate shirt
- poet shirt
- puffball skirt
- quirt
- reassert
- smirt
- unalert
- unhurt
- wedding shirt
Questions about curt
- What does curt mean?
- Curt means brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
- What is curt in Hindi?
- Curt in Hindi is रूखा (rūkhā). See Curt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is curt?
- Curt can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce curt?
- Curt is pronounced /kɝt/ (US).
Words near curt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: curt (page history and authors); Curt (page history and authors); रूखा (Hindi) (page history and authors); curt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); curt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); curt (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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