Adjective: curt
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | curter |
| Superlative | curtest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head. [...] Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it […] [1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “XVIII AND XIX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like curt
sallow,
smooth,
slight,
sleigh,
sordid,
somber,
shweet,
shrill,
shrewd,
yellow,
yaller,
hard knock,
DRY,
Greek,
cut short,
unquiet,
unclean,
indiscreet,
chipper,
straicht, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short. See: Latin Adjectives '
curtus', Dutch Adjectives '
kort', German Adjectives '
kurz', Galician Adjectives '
curto', French Adjectives '
court', Italian Adjectives '
corto', Portuguese Adjectives '
curto', Spanish Adjectives '
corto'.
Verbs referencing "curt"
German Adjectives
kurz, Spanish Adjectives
corto, Spanish Adjectives
cortante.