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Definition: Curtness |
CurtnessNoun1. An abrupt discourteous manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curtness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: CurtnessSynonyms: abruptness (n), brusqueness (n), gruffness (n), shortness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Taciturnity | Noun: silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness, curtness; reserve, reticence; (concealment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Curtness |
| English words defined with "curtness": exasperating ♦ infuriating ♦ maddening ♦ vexing. (references) |
| "Curtness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Curtness" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "curtness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | إقتضاب فظ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рязкост (asperity, brusqueness, hardness, rapidity, stridency, verjuice), грубост (asperity, barbarity, broadness, callosity, crudity, foulness, harshness, incivility, indelicacy, roughness, rudeness, toughness, truculence), отсеченост (abruptness). (various references) | |
Czech | strohost (austerity). (various references) | |
French | sécheresse, brusquerie. (various references) | |
German | Kürze (abruptness, bluntness, brevity, briefness, conciseness, shortness, terseness, transience). (various references) | |
Greek | συντομία (abbreviation, brevity, briefness, shortness, summariness, terseness), απότομη συμπεριφορά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קצור "'ובל בחוסר מוס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvariatlanság (brusqueness, discourtesy, impoliteness, incivility, tartness), rövidség (brevity, briefness, terseness). (various references) | |
Manx | girraghys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urtnesscay.(various references) | |
Romanian | concizie (brevity, conciseness, concision, terseness), ton tãios. (various references) | |
Russian | краткость (brevity, briefness, conciseness, concision, terseness), отрывистость (brusqueness). (various references) | |
Spanish | rudeza (rudeness), brusquedad (bluntness, brusqueness, sharpness, snappishness, suddenness), brevedad (brevity, briefness, shortness, terseness). (various references) | |
Turkish | sertlik (asperity, austerity, bitterness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, solidity, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), kısalık (brevity, briefness, conciseness, shortness, summariness), hırtlık. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính cộc lốc (angularity, angularness, crustiness, dryness), sự cụt ngủn tính ngắn gọn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curtness": curtnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Curtness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Curtess, Cutress, lutrensis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "curtness" (pronounced 'Curt"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: encrusts. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: crusets, encrust, unrests. | |
-2 letters: census, cestus, crests, cruets, cruses, cruset, crusts, curets, curses, cusser, eructs, estrus, nurses, rectus, recuts, russet, scents, scutes, sterns, sucres, sunset, surest, truces, tuners, tusser, unrest, unsets. | |
-3 letters: cents, centu, cress, crest, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet, curns, curse, curst, cuter, cutes, ecrus, eruct, nerts, nests, nurse, recut, rents. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: construes, recusants. | |
+2 letters: consulters, courtesans, crustiness, curbstones, curtnesses, scrutinies, scrutinise, subcenters, transduces. | |
+3 letters: conductress, consumerist, corruptness, countersues, courtliness, crustaceans, currentness, curtainless, discounters, misconstrue, putrescines, reconquests, rediscounts, sanctuaries, scatterguns, scroungiest, scrutineers, scrutinised, scrutinises, scrutinizes, securements, supertonics, surjections, transducers. | |
+4 letters: accurateness, consumerists, cotransduces, counterposes, countershots, countersigns, countersinks, counterspies, countersteps, countersuits, countryseats, countrysides, crosscurrent, crustinesses, deconstructs, destructions, disjunctures, disturbances, excursionist, fluorescents, insecurities, instructress, intercourses, misconstrued, misconstrues, neuroticisms, noncustomers, persecutions, prosecutions, putrescences, reconstructs, scrutinizers, stonecutters, stringcourse, supercenters, superinfects, turgescences. | |
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