| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | shao'rt |
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| Rhymes | abort, Agincourt, airport, and 45 more rhymes in aort at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Primarily temporal sense. Indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration. |
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| Examples | "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months" |
| Attribute of | duration, length |
| Similar | telescoped, shortened; abbreviated, shortened, truncated; brief, little; clipped; fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary; short and sweet; short-dated; short-range; short-run, short-term |
| See also | abridged |
| Contrary | long |
| Meaning | Primarily spatial sense. Having little length or lacking in length. |
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| Examples | "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss" |
| Attribute of | length |
| Similar | abbreviated, brief; close; curtal; sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened; shortish; short-range; short-snouted; snub; stubby; telescoped, shortened; truncate, truncated |
| Contrary | long |
| Meaning | Low in stature. Not tall. |
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| Examples | "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack" |
| Attribute of | stature, height |
| Similar | chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy; half-length; pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off; squab, squabby |
| See also | low; small, little |
| Contrary | tall |
| Meaning | Not sufficient to meet a need. |
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| Examples | "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" |
| Synonyms | inadequate, poor |
| Similar to | insufficient, deficient |
| Meaning | Not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices. |
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| Examples | "a short sale"; "short in cotton" |
| Category | finance |
| Contrary | long |
| Meaning | Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt'). |
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| Category | phonetics |
| Contrary | long |
| Meaning | Containing a large amount of shortening. Therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes. |
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| Examples | "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust" |
| Similar to | tender |
| Meaning | Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so. |
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| Examples | "regularly gives short weight" |
| Synonyms | light, scant |
| Similar to | insufficient, deficient |
| Meaning | Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration. |
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| Category | prosody, metrics |
| Similar to | unstressed, unaccented |
| Meaning | (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range. |
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| Examples | "a short memory" |
| Similar to | unretentive, forgetful |
| Meaning | Lacking foresight or scope. |
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| Examples | "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan" |
| Synonyms | shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic |
| Similar to | improvident |
| Meaning | Unwilling to endure. |
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| Examples | "she was short with the slower students" |
| Synonyms | unforbearing |
| Similar to | impatient |
| Meaning | Quickly aroused to anger. |
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| Synonyms | choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
| Similar to | ill-natured |
| Meaning | Most direct. |
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| Examples | "took the shortest and most direct route to town" |
| Synonyms | shortest |
| Similar to | direct |
| Meaning | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness. |
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| Examples | "the salesgirl was very short with him" |
| Synonyms | brusque, brusk, curt |
| Similar to | discourteous |
| Adverbs | shortly |
| Meaning | The location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed. |
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| Part of | baseball diamond, diamond, infield |
| Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
| Meaning | Accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference. |
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| Synonyms | short circuit |
| Part of | circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit |
| Broader | contact, tangency |
| Verbs | short |
| Meaning | The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base. |
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| Synonyms | shortstop |
| Member of | baseball team |
| Broader | position |
| Meaning | Quickly and without warning. |
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| Synonyms | abruptly, suddenly, dead |
| Meaning | Without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold. |
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| Examples | "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash" |
| Category | finance |
| Meaning | Clean across. |
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| Examples | "the car's axle snapped short" |
| Meaning | At some point or distance before a goal is reached. |
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| Examples | "he fell short of our expectations" |
| Meaning | So as to interrupt. |
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| Examples | "She took him up short before he could continue" |
| Meaning | At a disadvantage. |
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| Examples | "I was caught short" |
| Synonyms | unawares |
| Meaning | Tightly. |
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| Examples | "she caught him up short on his lapel" |
| Meaning | In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner. |
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| Examples | "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" |
| Synonyms | curtly, shortly |
| Meaning | Cheat someone by not returning him enough money. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | short-change |
| Broader | victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con |
| Meaning | Create a short-circuit in. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | short-circuit |
| Broader | make, create |
| Nouns | short |