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shortadjective having relatively little heighta lot of boys are shorter than the girls in middle school, but they quickly catch up by high school little, low, low-lying, low-slung, sawed-off dwarf, dwarfishcompact, petite, slightdiminutive, half-pint, pint-size(or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size(also pocket-sized), pygmy, small, smallishbantam, bitty, dinky, mini, miniature, minimized, minute, puny, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, undersized(also undersize), weedumpy, flat, scrubby, squat, squatty, stubby, stumpy, stunted altitudinous, high, lofty, tall, towering elevated, lifted, raised, uplifted, upswepthigh-rise, statuesquegangling, gangly, lanky, rangybig, bulky, hefty, hulking, large, largish, outsize(also outsized), oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), voluminous not lasting for a considerable timefortunately for those of us in the hot sun, the graduation speech was short and to the point brief, fast, little shortishabbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut-back, shortened, syncopatedcompact, condensedabrupt, suddenephemeral, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, transient, transitoryimpermanentcompendious, concise, crisp, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, succinct, summary, terseshort-range, short-term extended, far, great, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out(or long-drawn), long-lived endless, everlasting, interminable, persistent, unendinglongish, overlong, prolonged, protractedpermanentenlarged, expanded, supplementedlong-range, long-term not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular needregrettably, the art supplies are short this year, so you'll have to share deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, low, scarce, shy, wanting substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactoryhand-to-mouth, lean, light, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingybare, mere, minimumslight, small adequate, enough, sufficient abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenitudinousenlarged, expanded, supplementedabounding, overflowing, teemingsatisfactory, tolerablelavish, luxuriant, richbig, considerable, hefty, jumbo, king-size(or king-sized), large, largish, oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), substantial, super having a texture that readily breaks into little pieces under pressureshort pastry brickle(dialect), brittle, crisp, crispy, crumbly, embrittled, flaky(also flakey), friable crackly, crisped, crispened, crunchy, crustybreakable, delicate, fragile elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant, resilientstrong, sturdy, tough being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or mannerI didn't mean to be so short with you by responding to your request with a snippy "I'm busy!" abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque(also brusk), crusty, curt, downright, short-spoken, snippy, unceremonious gruff, rough, snappishcandid, direct, forthright, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, straightforward, straight-outartless, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, rude, tactless, undiplomaticbrief, closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, terse, tight-lippedearnest, honest, sincerecoarse, crass, crude, low, uncouth, vulgar circuitous, mealymouthed civil, considerate, courteous, diplomatic, gracious, polite, politic, smooth, suave, tactfulloquacious, talkative, volublelong-winded, prolix, verbosecourtly, cultivated, gallant, genteel, polished, refined with great suddennessthe bicyclist ahead of me unexpectedly pulled up short and I unavoidably plowed into him abruptly, suddenly surprisingly, unexpectedlydirectly, immediately, incontinently, instantaneously, instantly, promptly, pronto, right, right away, right off, straightawayfast, full-tilt, posthaste, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftlyhastily, impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly all of a sudden(also on a sudden) gradually, slowlyhesitantly to rob by the use of trickery or threatscharged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners before the 12th century |