Overview of adj shortest
The adj shortest has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town")
Overview of adj short
The adj short has 15 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (43) short -- (primarily temporal sense indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months")
2. (22) short -- (primarily spatial sense having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")
3. (7) short -- (low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack")
4. (3) inadequate, poor, short -- (not sufficient to meet a need "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience")
5. short -- ((finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton")
6. short -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt'))
7. short -- (containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust")
8. light, scant, short -- (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight")
9. short -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration)
10. short -- ((of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory")
11. short, shortsighted, unforesightful -- (lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan")
12. short, unforbearing -- (unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students")
13. choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered -- (quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander")
14. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town")
15. brusque, brusk, curt, short -- (marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him")
Antonyms of adj shortest
1 sense of shortest
Sense 1
short, shortest
INDIRECT (VIA direct) -> indirect
Antonyms of adj short
15 senses of short
Sense 1
short (vs. long)
long (vs. short)
=> agelong
=> bimestrial
=> daylong
=> drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
=> durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
=> endless, eternal, interminable
=> hourlong
=> lifelong, womb-to-tomb
=> long-acting
=> long-dated
=> longish
=> longitudinal
=> long-range
=> long-run, long-term, semipermanent
=> longstanding
=> monthlong
=> nightlong, overnight
=> perennial
=> weeklong
=> yearlong
Sense 2
short (vs. long)
long (vs. short)
=> elongate, elongated
=> elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
=> extendible, extendable
=> far
=> in length(prenominal)
=> lank
=> long-distance
=> longer, longest
=> long-handled
=> long-range
=> long-snouted
=> long-staple
=> oblong
=> polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
=> stretch(postnominal)
=> long-wool, long-wooled
Sense 3
short (vs. tall)
tall (vs. short)
=> full-length
=> gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy
=> in height(prenominal)
=> leggy, long-legged, long-shanked
=> leggy, tall-growing
=> long
=> stately, statuesque
=> tallish
Sense 4
inadequate, poor, short
INDIRECT (VIA insufficient) -> sufficient
Sense 5
short (vs. long)
long (vs. short)
Sense 6
short (vs. long)
long (vs. short)
Sense 7
short
INDIRECT (VIA tender) -> tough
Sense 8
light, scant(prenominal), short
INDIRECT (VIA insufficient) -> sufficient
Sense 9
short
INDIRECT (VIA unstressed) -> stressed
Sense 10
short
INDIRECT (VIA unretentive) -> retentive
Sense 11
short, shortsighted, unforesightful
INDIRECT (VIA improvident) -> provident
Sense 12
short, unforbearing
INDIRECT (VIA impatient) -> patient
Sense 13
choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered
INDIRECT (VIA ill-natured) -> good-natured
Sense 14
short, shortest
INDIRECT (VIA direct) -> indirect
Sense 15
brusque, brusk, curt, short(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA discourteous) -> courteous
Similarity of adj shortest
1 sense of shortest
Sense 1
short, shortest
=> direct (vs. indirect)
Similarity of adj short
15 senses of short
Sense 1
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, shortened, truncated
=> brief, little
=> clipped
=> fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
=> short-dated
=> short-range
=> short-run, short-term
=> telescoped, shortened
=> short and sweet(prenominal)
Sense 2
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, brief
=> close
=> curtal
=> sawed-off, shortened
=> shortish
=> short-range
=> short-snouted
=> telescoped, shortened
=> snub
=> stubby
=> truncate, truncated
Sense 3
short (vs. tall)
=> chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
=> half-length
=> pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off
=> squab, squabby
Also See-> small#1, little#1; low#2
Sense 4
inadequate, poor, short
=> insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient
Sense 5
short (vs. long)
Sense 6
short (vs. long)
Sense 7
short
=> tender (vs. tough)
Sense 8
light, scant(prenominal), short
=> insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient
Sense 9
short
=> unstressed (vs. stressed), unaccented
Sense 10
short
=> unretentive (vs. retentive), forgetful
Sense 11
short, shortsighted, unforesightful
=> improvident (vs. provident)
Sense 12
short, unforbearing
=> impatient (vs. patient)
Sense 13
choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered
=> ill-natured (vs. good-natured)
Sense 14
short, shortest
=> direct (vs. indirect)
Sense 15
brusque, brusk, curt, short(prenominal)
=> discourteous (vs. courteous)
Attributes of adj shortest
Attributes of adj short
3 of 15 senses of short
Sense 1
short (vs. long)
=> duration, length
Sense 2
short (vs. long)
=> length
Sense 3
short (vs. tall)
=> stature, height
Familiarity of adj shortest
shortest used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Familiarity of adj short
short used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 15)
Grep of adj shortest
shortest
Grep of adj short
short
short-dated
short-handed
short-handled
short-headed
short-lived
short-order
short-range
short-run
short-snouted
short-staffed
short-tempered
short-term
short-winded
short-winged
short and sweet
shortened
shortest
shorthand
shortish
shortsighted
Overview of adj shortest
The adj shortest has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town")
Overview of adj short
The adj short has 15 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (43) short -- (primarily temporal sense indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months")
2. (22) short -- (primarily spatial sense having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")
3. (7) short -- (low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack")
4. (3) inadequate, poor, short -- (not sufficient to meet a need "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience")
5. short -- ((finance) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton")
6. short -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt'))
7. short -- (containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust")
8. light, scant, short -- (less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight")
9. short -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration)
10. short -- ((of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory")
11. short, shortsighted, unforesightful -- (lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan")
12. short, unforbearing -- (unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students")
13. choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered -- (quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander")
14. short, shortest -- (most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town")
15. brusque, brusk, curt, short -- (marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him")
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