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short-spoken

short-spoken adjective: sharp and curt in one's speech; terse.

Adjective

short-spoken (comparative more short-spoken, superlative most short-spoken)

  1. sharp and curt in one's speech; terse

short-spoken meaning in Tamil and Kannada

short-spoken in Tamil

சொல்சொற்செட்டுடைய

short-spoken in Kannada

ಮಿತಭಾಷಿ, ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾತಾಡುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ

Forms of short-spoken

comparativemore short-spoken
superlativemost short-spoken

Questions about short-spoken

What does short-spoken mean?
Short-spoken means sharp and curt in one's speech; terse.
What is short-spoken in Tamil?
Short-spoken in Tamil is சொல்சொற்செட்டுடைய. See Short-spoken meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is short-spoken?
Short-spoken is an adjective.

Words near short-spoken in the dictionary

  1. short-sightedness
  2. short-sleeper
  3. short-sleepers
  4. short-sleeved
  5. short-sold
  6. short-spoken
  7. short-staff
  8. short-staffed
  9. short-staffing
  10. short-staffs
  11. short-stop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-spoken (page history and authors); short-spoken (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); short-spoken (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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