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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 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 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 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 short short used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 15) 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 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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