brusque (adj.)

• abbreviated
• abridged
• abrupt
• aggressive
• artless
• bearish
• beastly
• bluff
• blunt
• brash
• brief
• broad
• candid
• cavalier
• churlish
• clipped
• close
• closemouthed
• compact
• compendious
• compressed
• concise
• contracted
• crisp
• crusty
• curt
• cut
• direct
• discourteous
• downright
• dumb
• elliptic
• epigrammatic
• explicit
• forthright
• frank
• free
• free-spoken
• genuine
• gnomic
• gruff
• harsh
• heart-to-heart
• ill-mannered
• impolite
• ingenuous
• laconic
• mum
• mute
• open
• openhearted
• outspoken
• overbearing
• pithy
• plain
• pointed
• quiet
• reserved
• rough
• round
• rude
• sententious
• severe
• sharp
• short
• shortened
• silent
• sincere
• snug
• speechless
• straight
• straight-out
• straightforward
• succinct
• summary
• surly
• taciturn
• terse
• tight
• tongue-tied
• transparent
• truculent
• truncated
• unchecked
• uncivil
• unconstrained
• unequivocal
• ungracious
• unguarded
• unmannerly
• unreserved
• unrestrained
• untalkative
• wordless