short

short
adj
1. little, small, Chiefly Scot. wee, miniature, miniscule, minikin, diminutive, Scot. cutly; tiny, elfin, bantam, slight, (of women) petite, Lilliputian, Inf. Tom Thumb, Sl. pint-sized, Sl. pocket-sized, Sl. sawed-off, Sl. knee-high to a grasshopper, dwarfish, runty, runtish, pygmy; atomic, amoebic; squat, stunted, stubby, dumpy, truncated, (of trees or shrubbery) pollard.
2. momentary, temporary, impermanent. See short-lived.
3. concise, succinct, brief, to the point, short-winded, straightforward, direct, pointed, emphatic; abbreviated, abridged, compressed, summarized, thumbnail, condensed, curtailed, curtate, contracted, Obs. brevi-ate; compact, lean, bare, close, neat; comprehensive, summary, synoptic, Inf. meaty; pithy, sententious, epigrammatic, crisp, precise, exact, gnomic; laconic, terse, elliptical, breviloquent, Rare. pauciloquent.
4. curt, sharp, abrupt. See short-tempered.
5. inadequate, insufficient, lacking, wanting, in arrears, short-handed, missing, shy; meager, sparse, scanty, unplentiful, scarce, tight, slender, slim, lean, thin, scraggy; below standard, poor, low, deficient, defective, failed.
6.Cookery, (all of pastry) crumbly, flaky, crusty, crispy.
7.(all of metals) brittle, friable, breakable, fragile, frangible, fissile, shivery.
8.Chiefly Brit, (all of whiskey) undiluted, unmixed, uncut, straight, straight-up.
9.Ceramics. stiff, hard, rigid, inflexible, unpliable, unpliant, impliant, inelastic, inductile; brittle, friable, fissile, shivery.
10. short and sweet
pleasantly or appropriately brief, concise, succinct, direct, straightforward; apt, appropriate, pertinent, to the point.
11. short of
a. less than, inferior to.b. poor, deficient, lacking, wanting, missing.c. excluding, disregarding, not counting, leaving out; besides, other than, apart from, aside from.
adv
12. abruptly, suddenly, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, without warning, out of the blue; instantly, hastily, posthaste, quickly, swiftly, rapidly, fast, hurriedly, forthwith.
13. briefly, concisely, succinctly, directly, pointedly; curtly, sharply, tersely, tartly, rudely, brusquely, gruffly-
14. not far enough, this side of, on the near side of; prematurely, precipitately, beforehand, too soon, too early, too nastily; inopportunely, untimely.
15. cut short
terminate, stop, stop short, stop in the midst of, arrest, halt, cut off; interrupt, interfere, intermit, interpose, cut in on, break in upon, butt in.
16. sell short
Informal. disparage, deprecate, demean, belittle, deflate, derogate, detract, depreciate, devaluate, talk down, put down; underestimate, dispraise, minimize, slight, underrate, undervalue, under-reckon, beggar, extenuate, misprize, think nothing of, set no store by, fail to count on.
n
17. gist, essence, sum and substance, long and short; effect, drift, sense, spirit, import, tenor, purport, significance, implication, burden; pith, core, heart, marrow, main point, essential part.
18. shorts
a. bermudas, short pants, culottes, Inf. cut-offs, Inf. short shorts, hot pants.b. underpants, underwear, underdrawers, drawers, briefs, Sl. skivvies, Sl. undies, Trademark. BVDs, Trademark. Fruit of the Looms, trunks, boxer shorts, jockey shorts, Brit. y-fronts, Brit. knickers; panties, bloomers.c. knickerbockers, knickers, breeches, knee breeches, Brit. plus-fours, Inf. trousers, clamdiggers.d.(all of manufacturing or cutting processes) remnants, remainders, debris, scraps, fragments, shavings, chips, parings; discards, discharge, refuse, waste, garbage.
19.Motion Pictures. short subject, documentary, travelogue, cartoon; preview, trailer.
20. deficiency, insufficiency, deficit. See shortage.
21.Chiefly Brit, (all of whiskey) shot, jigger, gill, measure, single, Sl. a finger or two, Sl. nip, Sl. quick one.
22. in short
a. in summary, in conclusion, Inf. in a nutshell, all in all, in all, in the final analysis.b. in brief, in a word, in a few words, to put it briefly, to be brief, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to cut the matter short, to make a long story short.

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  • Short — Short, a. [Compar. {Shorter}; superl. {Shortest}.] [OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. {Shirt}.] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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