Synonyms for Brusque:

• adj.

  •abrupt (adjective)
  • un civil,
  • matter-of-fact,
  • un gracious,
  • un-civil,
  • un-gracious.
  •bluff (adjective)
  • more breviloquent,
  • heartiest,
  • nononsense,
  • out-spoken,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • most plain spoken,
  • most bearish,
  • most blustering,
  • most plain-spoken,
  • more plain-spoken,
  • more blustering,
  • most breviloquent,
  • more bearish,
  • more plain spoken,
  • Plain-spoken,
  • out spoken,
  • plain spoken,
  • un ceremonious.
  •blunt (adjective)
  • explicit.
  •brief (adjective)
  • boiled down,
  • limited,
  • short sweet,
  • most compendiary,
  • to point,
  • more compendiary.
  •churlish (adjective)
  • more lowbred,
  • un-cultured,
  • most clodhopping,
  • most lowbred,
  • more clodhopping,
  • un-mannerly,
  • un neighborly,
  • un-sociable,
  • oafish,
  • more cloddish,
  • un sociable,
  • most cussed,
  • un-civilized,
  • illtempered,
  • un mannerly,
  • un-neighborly,
  • un civilized,
  • most cloddish,
  • more unneighborly,
  • ill tempered,
  • un cultured,
  • most unneighborly,
  • more cussed.
  •concise (adjective)
  • incisive,
  • short and sweet,
  • compact,
  • concise.
  •crabby (adjective)
  • more mumpish,
  • most mumpish,
  • chuffier,
  • chuffiest.
  •crabby/crabbed (adjective)
  • badtempered,
  • more difficult,
  • more nasty tempered,
  • splenetic,
  • most splenetic,
  • nasty tempered,
  • more nasty-tempered,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • more nastytempered,
  • more illhumored,
  • most nasty tempered,
  • most ill humored,
  • nastytempered,
  • mis anthropic,
  • huffy,
  • irritable,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more ill humored,
  • bad tempered,
  • illhumored,
  • most nastytempered,
  • ill-humored,
  • ill humored,
  • most nasty-tempered,
  • gloomy,
  • more ill-humored,
  • more splenetic,
  • most illhumored,
  • most crabbed.
  •crisp (adjective)
  • clearcut,
  • most piquing,
  • more piquing.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • more vinegary,
  • more snarling,
  • short tempered,
  • most vinegary,
  • shorttempered,
  • most snarling.
  •curt, surly (adjective)
  • impolite,
  • hasty,
  • sharp,
  • tart,
  • unmannerly.
  •disagreeable (adjective)
  • whiniest,
  • whiny,
  • whinier,
  • pettish,
  • unlikable.
  •discourteous (adjective)
  • flipper,
  • Ungenteel,
  • smart alecky,
  • ill-bred,
  • Inurbane,
  • illbred,
  • flip,
  • bad-mannered,
  • Inaffable.
  •impatient (adjective)
  • thirsty,
  • more appetent,
  • head-long,
  • hot tempered,
  • most unindulgent,
  • more straining,
  • most straining,
  • most chafing,
  • quick tempered,
  • racing one motor,
  • most appetent,
  • racing ones motor,
  • ripe,
  • un indulgent,
  • in tolerant,
  • headlong,
  • in-tolerant,
  • quicktempered,
  • unindulgent,
  • more chafing,
  • racing motor,
  • head long,
  • racing one's motor,
  • on pins needles,
  • un-indulgent,
  • more unindulgent.
  •inhospitable (adjective)
  • most unwelcoming,
  • in-hospitable,
  • un-kinder,
  • un generous,
  • un favorable,
  • more unreceptive,
  • un kind,
  • un-receptive,
  • un receptive,
  • un kinder,
  • un welcoming,
  • un-kindest,
  • un-favorable,
  • most unreceptive,
  • un congenial,
  • in hospitable,
  • un-generous,
  • un-kind,
  • un kindest,
  • un-welcoming,
  • more unwelcoming,
  • un-congenial.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • crabby.
  •morose (adjective)
  • down the dumps,
  • singing blues,
  • having blahs,
  • down the mouth,
  • down mouth,
  • down dumps,
  • more perversive,
  • more moping,
  • most moping,
  • most perversive,
  • in a blue funk.
  •offhand (adjective)
  • folksy,
  • laid back.
  •raucous (adjective)
  • in harmonious,
  • more earpiercing,
  • most atonal,
  • dis-sonant,
  • more ear piercing,
  • more ear-piercing,
  • most braying,
  • more braying,
  • most ear piercing,
  • most absonant,
  • un-harmonious,
  • most squawking,
  • un musical,
  • more atonal,
  • unharmonious,
  • dis sonant,
  • most stertorous,
  • more squawking,
  • earpiercing,
  • more absonant,
  • ear piercing,
  • unmusical,
  • in-harmonious,
  • un-musical,
  • stertorous,
  • more stertorous,
  • most ear-piercing,
  • un harmonious,
  • most earpiercing.
  •rough (adjective)
  • in-elegant,
  • in decorous,
  • un juster,
  • un tutored,
  • un-juster,
  • un feeling,
  • more untutored,
  • most untutored,
  • un just,
  • un-tutored,
  • in-decorous,
  • un cultivated,
  • in elegant,
  • un-justest,
  • untutored,
  • un justest,
  • un-cultivated,
  • un-just.
  •rude (adjective)
  • more brutish,
  • uneducated,
  • most brutish,
  • un educated,
  • un-educated.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • dis-illusioned,
  • more taunting,
  • most chaffing,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • most weisenheiming,
  • most needling,
  • more twitting,
  • dis illusioned,
  • needling,
  • more chaffing,
  • most ironical,
  • most taunting,
  • most twitting,
  • mordant,
  • more needling.
  •satiric (adjective)
  • satiric.
  •severe (adjective)
  • cool,
  • rigid,
  • ascetic,
  • strait-laced,
  • intolerant,
  • austere,
  • inflexible,
  • caustic,
  • meticulous,
  • critical,
  • exacting,
  • harsh,
  • bleak,
  • stiff-necked,
  • lean,
  • basic,
  • obdurate,
  • spartan,
  • frosty,
  • hidebound,
  • oppressive,
  • prudish,
  • censorious,
  • intense,
  • relentless,
  • brisk,
  • spare,
  • piquant,
  • obstinate,
  • precise,
  • icy,
  • astringent,
  • acute,
  • chilly,
  • fundamental,
  • dry,
  • dour,
  • severe,
  • acrimonious,
  • correct,
  • grim,
  • disciplined,
  • draconian,
  • imperial,
  • uncompromising,
  • rigorous,
  • puritanical,
  • unbending,
  • stringent,
  • stern,
  • strict,
  • acerbic,
  • authoritarian,
  • stark,
  • cutting,
  • demanding,
  • keen.
  •short (adjective)
  • shortest.
  •short-spoken (adjective)
  • short spoken,
  • shortspoken.
  •snippy (adjective)
  • sharp tongued,
  • sharptongued.
  •succinct (adjective)
  • cut to bone,
  • cut the bone,
  • in few words,
  • in nutshell,
  • cut to the bone,
  • in a nutshell,
  • cut bone.
  •surly (adjective)
  • more curmudgeonly,
  • most curmudgeonly.
  •terse (adjective)
  • ex act,
  • epigrammatic,
  • taut,
  • more gnomic,
  • more clipped,
  • most gnomic,
  • ex-act,
  • most clipped.

• n.

  •
  • peremptory.
  •
  • attitude.
  •terse (noun)
  • study at blunt.
  •unfriendly (noun)
  • cold,
  • aloof,
  • antagonistic,
  • stony,
  • hostile,
  • unpleasant,
  • distant,
  • unfriendly.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • clipped,
  • shortly.
  •unctuous
  • oily.

Paraphrases for Brusque:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    sharp, sudden, rough, rude.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    abrupt, steep.

Antonyms for Brusque:

• adj.

  • curt, surly
    polite, tactful, courteous, kind.
  • Other antonyms:
    refined, courtly, genteel, considerate, diplomatic, smooth, voluble, talkative, loquacious, politic, polished, cultivated, gallant, suave, mealymouthed, civil.

Homophones for Brusque:

• bruske.