| Main Entry: | snippety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impudent |
Synonyms: |
arrant, assuming, assumptive, audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, boldfaced, brash, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cheeky*, cocky*, contumelious, cool*, familiar, flip*, forward, fresh, immodest, impertinent, insolent, malapert, nervy, off-base, overbold, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart*, smart-alecky, unabashed, unblushing, wise* |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt |
Synonyms: |
barefaced, bearish, blunt, blustering, breviloquent, brief, brusque, candid, crusty, curt, direct, downright, forthright, frank, gruff, hearty, honest, laconic, no-nonsense, open, outspoken, plain-spoken, rough, rude, short, short-spoken, sincere, snippety, snippy, straightforward, tactless, tart, terse, unceremonious |
| Main Entry: | crusty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bluff, blunt, brief, brusque, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, curt, dour, gruff, harsh, ill-humored, irascible, peevish, prickly, sarcastic, saturnine, scornful, short, short-tempered, snappish, snarling, snippety, snippy, splenetic, surly, testy, touchy, vinegary |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | curt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt, rude |
Synonyms: |
blunt, breviloquent, brief, brusque, churlish, compendiary, compendious, concise, crusty, gruff, imperious, laconic, offhand, peremptory, pithy, sharp, short, short and sweet, snappish, snippety, snippy, succinct, summary, tart, terse, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious |
Antonyms: |
ceremonious, civil, gracious, lengthy, polite |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abrupt, discourteous |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, blunt, breviloquent, brief, brusque, curt, direct, gruff, impolite, inconsiderate, irascible, offhand, rude, sharp, short-spoken, short-tempered, snappy, snippety, snippy, straight, terse, testy, thoughtless, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious |
Antonyms: |
courteous, kind, polite |
| Main Entry: | snippy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curt |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, blunt, brief, brusque, churlish, gruff, impertinent, rude, sharp, sharp-tongued, snappish, snippety |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
Related
Adjectives: |
little, short, brachyskelic, brief, commatic, compact, compendious, concise, curt, curtailed of its fair proportion, dumpy, fubsy, improcerous, oblate, pug, runtish, scrimp, shorn, short by, short-waisted, spuddy, squab, squabbish, squabby, squat, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, summary, thickset, undersized
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