Brusque \Brusque\, a. [F. brusque, from It. brusco brusque,
tart, sour, perh. fr. L. (vitis) labrusca wild (vine); or cf.
OHG. bruttisc grim, fr. brutti terror.]
Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; bluff; as, a
brusque man; a brusque style.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brusque
adj : marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl
was very short with him" [syn: brusk, curt, short(p)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "brusque":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aggressive, aposiopestic,
artless, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, broad,
candid, cavalier, churlish, clipped, close, close-tongued,
closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed,
contracted, crisp, crusty, curt, cut, direct, discourteous, docked,
downright, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic,
explicit, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking,
free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, gnomic, gruff, harsh,
heart-to-heart, ill-mannered, impolite, indisposed to talk,
ingenuous, laconic, mum, mute, open, openhearted, outspoken,
overbearing, pithy, plain, plain-spoken, pointed, pruned, quiet,
reserved, rough, round, rude, sententious, severe, sharp, short,
short and sweet, shortened, silent, sincere, snippety, snippy,
snug, sparing of words, speechless, straight, straight-out,
straightforward, succinct, summary, surly, synopsized, taciturn,
terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, transparent,
truculent, truncated, unchecked, uncivil, unconstrained,
unequivocal, ungracious, unguarded, unloquacious, unmannerly,
unreserved, unrestrained, untalkative, word-bound, wordless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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