Brusque

Adjective

 * 1) Rudely abrupt, unfriendly.

Adverbs for Brusque
dashingly; fussily; hurriedly; impetuously; hastily; precipitately; urgently; expeditiously; fitfully; boisterously; furiously; outrageously; roughly; uproariously; violently; excitedly; stormily; extravagantly; ostentatiously; hysterically; uncontrollably; irrepressibly; turbulently; wildly; rampageously.

Related terms
brusquely; brusqueness

Thesaurus
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt, aggressive, aposiopestic, artless, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, brash, brief, broad, candid, cavalier, churlish, clipped, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, crusty, curt, cut, direct, discourteous, docked, downright, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, explicit, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, genuine, gnomic, gruff, harsh, heart-to-heart, ill-mannered, impolite, indisposed to talk, ingenuous, laconic, mum, mute, open, openhearted, outspoken, overbearing, pithy, plain, plain-spoken, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, rough, round, rude, sententious, severe, sharp, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, sincere, snippety, snippy, snug, sparing of words, speechless, straight, straight-out, straightforward, succinct, summary, surly, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, transparent, truculent, truncated, unchecked, uncivil, unconstrained, unequivocal, ungracious, unguarded, unloquacious, unmannerly, unreserved, unrestrained, untalkative, word-bound, wordless

Alternative forms

 * brusk

Etymology
From brusque: <  brusco:; origin unknown.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, рязък,  безцеремонен
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Icelandic: þurr á manninn, þurr á manninn,  stuttur í spuna,  stuttaralegur, ,  byrstur, ruddalegur
 * Indonesian: serampangan, kasar, hantam kromo
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: opryskliwy, szorstki
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,

Adjective

 * 1) abrupt (sudden or hasty)