curt (adj.)

• abbreviated
• abridged
• abrupt
• aggressive
• bearish
• beastly
• bluff
• blunt
• brash
• brief
• brusque
• cavalier
• churlish
• clipped
• close
• closemouthed
• compact
• compendious
• compressed
• concise
• contracted
• crisp
• crusty
• curtal
• cut
• dumb
• elliptic
• epigrammatic
• gnomic
• gruff
• harsh
• imperious
• instantaneous
• laconic
• little
• low
• mum
• mute
• peremptory
• pithy
• pointed
• quiet
• reserved
• rough
• rude
• sententious
• severe
• sharp
• short
• shortened
• silent
• snappish
• snug
• speechless
• succinct
• summary
• surly
• synoptic
• taciturn
• terse
• tight
• tongue-tied
• transient
• truculent
• truncated
• unceremonious
• untalkative
• wordless