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Adjective short has 15 senses
- 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"
Antonyms: long, 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, long-life, longitudinal, long-range, long-run, long-term, semipermanent, longstanding, monthlong, nightlong, overnight, perennial, time-consuming, weeklong, yearlong
- short - primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
Antonyms: long, elongate, elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged, extendible, extendable, far, in length, lank, long-distance, longer, longest, long-handled, long-range, long-snouted, long-staple, oblong, polysyllabic, sesquipedalian, stretch, long-wool, long-wooled
- short - low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
Antonyms: tall, full-length, gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy, in height, long-legged, long-shanked, leggy, tall-growing, long, stately, statuesque, tallish
- 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"
Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
- short - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
Antonym: long
- short - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
Antonym: long
- 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"
Antonym: tough (indirect, via tender)
- 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"
Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
- short - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
Antonym: stressed (indirect, via unstressed)
- short - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
Antonym: retentive (indirect, via unretentive)
- short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
Antonym: provident (indirect, via improvident)
- short, unforbearing - unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
Antonym: patient (indirect, via impatient)
- choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
Antonym: good-natured (indirect, via ill-natured)
- short, shortest - most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"
Antonym: indirect (indirect, via direct)
- 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"
Antonym: courteous (indirect, via discourteous)
Adverbial short has 8 senses
- abruptly, suddenly, short, dead - quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- short - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
- short - clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
- short - at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
- short - so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
- short, unawares - at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
- short - tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
- curtly, short, shortly - in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
Noun short has 3 senses
- short - the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
--1 is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--1 is a part of baseball diamond, diamond, infield
- short circuit, short - accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
--2 is a kind of contact, tangency
--2 is a part of circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit
- shortstop, short - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
--3 is a kind of position
--3 is a member of baseball team
Verb short has 2 senses
- short-change, short - cheat someone by not returning him enough money
--1 is one way to victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- short-circuit, short - create a short-circuit in
--2 is one way to make, create
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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