clipped speech
Brusque, truncated utterances
Clipped speech is a manner of speaking with words cut short, syllables swallowed, and sentences kept brief.
It suggests brusqueness, impatience, or military efficiency: His clipped speech made clear the conversation was over.
The term can also describe speech affected by certain neurological conditions or accents that favor crisp, abbreviated pronunciation.
- curtAbruptly rude in speech
- terseBrief to bluntness
- brusqueAbrupt and dismissive
- no nonsenseSerious and efficient
- staccatoShort, separated note style
abrupt · choppy · crisp · short sentences · snappy · sharp · military · formal · telegram · truncated · cut off · shortwave · radio · static · efficient · commands · orders · barked
- brevitybrevity, concise, succinct, terse, pithy
- speech habitsmumbling, stuttering, stammering, rambling, interrupting
- speech patternstempo, articulation, pace, rhythm, enunciation
- speechspeaking, talk, diction, conversation, pronunciation
- Affected Speechaffectation, airs, pretentiousness, posh accent, overenunciation
- brief formsbrevity, concision, terseness, abbreviation, acronym