TERSE

• Abrupt

• Adhering to Strunk and White's advice Omit needless words

• Adjective for Calvin Coolidge's comments

• Antisesquipedalian

• As in a nutshell

• Blunt

• Breviloquent

• Brief

• Brief and pithy

• Brief and to the point

• Brief in speech

• Briefly stated

• Brusque

• By no means long-winded

• Certainly not verbose

• Clipped

• Compact

• Compendious

• Concise

• Coolidgelike

• Crisp

• Curt

• Economical wordwise

• Effectively concise

• Elliptical

• Epigrammatic

• Far from diffuse

• Far from flowery

• Far from loquacious

• Far from prolix

• Far from verbose

• Far from windy

• Free of superfluity

• Hardly chatty

• Hardly gabby

• Hardly garrulous

• Hardly long-winded

• Hardly loquacious

• Hardly prolix

• Hardly sesquipedalian

• Hardly talkative

• Hardly verbose

• Hardly wandering

• Hardly windy

• In a nutshell

• In headlinese, say

• In telegraphese

• It's not wordy! It's not wordy!

• Lacking long-windedness

• Laconic

• Like a man of few words

• Like an aphorism

• Like aphorisms

• Like apothegms

• Like Calvin Coolidge, famously

• Like Calvin Coolidge's comments

• Like Coolidge, famously

• Like Coolidge's utterances

• Like headlines

• Like Hemingway's prose

• Like Silent Cal

• Like telegram messages

• Like telegrams, typically

• Like the review Hated it, e.g.

• Low on word count

• Monosyllabic, perhaps

• Most crossword clues, e.g.

• Neither wordy, verbose, longwinded, loquacious, nor like this clue

• No-nonsense

• Not at all garrulous

• Not at all windy

• Not chatty

• Not drawn out

• Not flowery

• Not garrulous

• Not going on

• Not in any way, shape or form like this particular crossword puzzle clue

• Not inclined to go on

• Not long-winded

• Not mincing words

• Not quite elliptical

• Not rambling

• Not real chatty

• Not roundabout

• Not saying much

• Not verbose

• Not very vocal

• Not very wordy

• Not wandering

• Not windy

• Of few words

• Opposite of prolix

• Pauciloquent

• Pithy

• Pointed

• Quick and to the point

• Right to the point

• Shirt and court

• Short

• Short and direct

• Short and maybe not sweet

• Short and maybe sweet

• Short and often not sweet

• Short and sharp

• Short and snappy

• Short and sweet

• Short and sweet, as speeches go

• Short and to the point

• Short on words

• Short winded

• Short-spoken

• Spare

• Sparing of words

• Steer, to be concise

• Succient

• Succinctly worded

• Summary

• To the point

• Unlike filibusters

• Unlike most Jesse Jackson speeches

• Unlike this obnoxiously verbose, extended, and prolix clue

• Unpadded

• Unwordy

• Using few words

• Verbally sparing

• Very short

• Wasting no words

• Without any embroidery

• Without elaboration

• Without wasted words

• Without wasting words