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short 
adjective
- 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 Similar: abbreviated, shortened, truncated, brief, little, clipped, fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, short-dated, short-range, short-run, short-term, telescoped, shortened, short and sweet - 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 Similar: abbreviated, brief, close, curtal, sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened, shortish, short-range, short-snouted, telescoped, shortened, snub, stubby, truncate, truncated - low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
Antonyms: tall Similar: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, squab, squabby - 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"
Synonyms: inadequate, poor Similar: insufficient, deficient - not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
Antonyms: long - of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat'', `pet'', `pit'', `pot'', putt'')
Antonyms: long - 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"
Similar: tender - less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
Synonyms: light, scant Similar: insufficient, deficient - used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
Similar: unstressed, unaccented - (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
Similar: unretentive, forgetful - lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful Similar: improvident - unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
Synonyms: unforbearing Similar: impatient - quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"
Synonyms: choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered Similar: ill-natured - most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"
Synonyms: shortest Similar: direct - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt Similar: discourteous
noun
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
Synonyms: short circuit - the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base
Synonyms: shortstop
adverb
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
Synonyms: abruptly, dead, suddenly - without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
- clean across; "the car''s axle snapped short"
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
- so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
- at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
Synonyms: unawares - tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
- 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"
Synonyms: curtly, shortly
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