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short

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"

(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

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"

of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"

lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"

low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"

so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"

at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"

clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

Synonyms:

• 3-D,
• Bermuda shorts,
• Cinemascope,
• Cinerama,
• Spartan,
• Technicolor,
• Western,
• aback,
• abbreviate,
• abbreviated,
• abridged,
• abrupt,
• abruptly,
• adulterated,
• aggressive,
• all in all,
• amount,
• amplify,
• animated cartoon,
• apart from,
• aposiopestic,
• arrested,
• badly off,
• bankrupt in,
• bare of,
• barring,
• bear,
• bear account,
• bearish,
• beastly,
• before,
• bereft of,
• black-and-white film,
• blemished,
• bluff,
• blunt,
• brash,
• break,
• break in on,
• brief,
• briefly,
• brisk,
• broken circuit,
• brusque,
• burden,
• butt in,
• callow,
• cartoon,
• cavalier,
• charge,
• chiller,
• chunky,
• churlish,
• cinema,
• circuit,
• circuital field,
• clipped,
• close,
• close-tongued,
• closed circuit,
• closemouthed,
• color film,
• cometary,
• compact,
• compendious,
• complete circuit,
• compressed,
• concise,
• condensed,
• contracted,
• core,
• couchant,
• cramped,
• creepie,
• crisp,
• crouched,
• crusty,
• cursory,
• curt,
• curtail,
• curtailed,
• curtal,
• curtate,
• cut,
• cut off,
• cut short,
• damaged,
• dead circuit,
• debased,
• decreased,
• decurtate,
• defective,
• deficient,
• denuded of,
• depressed,
• deprived of,
• depthless,
• destitute of,
• devoid of,
• diminished,
• diminutive,
• dinky,
• direct,
• discourteous,
• distressed,
• docked,
• documentary,
• documentary film,
• down to bedrock,
• dumb,
• dumpy,
• dwarfish,
• economical of words,
• educational film,
• electrify,
• elfin,
• elliptic,
• embarrassed,
• embryonic,
• empty of,
• energize,
• epigrammatic,
• erroneous,
• except for,
• excepting,
• excluding,
• exclusive of,
• exiguous,
• fail,
• failing,
• fallible,
• faulty,
• feature,
• feeling the pinch,
• few,
• film,
• flashing,
• flat,
• fleet,
• flick,
• flicker,
• flickering,
• footling,
• for want of,
• forlorn of,
• forthwith,
• found wanting,
• galvanic circuit,
• galvanize,
• generate,
• gist,
• gnomic,
• gruff,
• half-pint,
• hard up,
• harsh,
• hastily,
• horror picture,
• horse opera,
• hot circuit,
• hot pants,
• hurriedly,
• hypoplastic,
• ill off,
• immature,
• impaired,
• impecunious,
• imperfect,
• impolite,
• imprecise,
• impure,
• in Queer Street,
• in a nutshell,
• in arrear,
• in arrears,
• in default,
• in default of,
• in narrow circumstances,
• in reduced circumstances,
• in short,
• in short supply,
• in straitened circumstances,
• in want of,
• inaccurate,
• inadequate,
• incomplete,
• inconsequential,
• inconsiderable,
• inconsiderate,
• indisposed to talk,
• inexact,
• infant,
• inferior,
• insignificant,
• instantaneous,
• instantly,
• insufficient,
• interrupt,
• irascible,
• knee-high,
• knocked flat,
• lacking,
• laconic,
• laid low,
• land-poor,
• lateral circuit,
• leaving out,
• leg,
• lessened,
• limited,
• little,
• live circuit,
• loop,
• loop in,
• low,
• low-built,
• low-hung,
• low-level,
• low-leveled,
• low-lying,
• low-set,
• low-statured,
• magnetic circuit,
• makeshift,
• meager,
• meat,
• mediocre,
• meteoric,
• microcircuit,
• midget,
• miniature,
• minus,
• minuscule,
• missing,
• mixed,
• momentary,
• motion picture,
• motion-picture show,
• movie,
• moving picture,
• multiple circuit,
• multiple series,
• mum,
• mute,
• narrow,
• neap,
• needing,
• negligible,
• newsreel,
• no great shakes,
• not perfect,
• nudie,
• off,
• offhand,
• on the edge,
• one-horse,
• out of,
• out of pocket,
• part,
• partial,
• patchy,
• path,
• penniless,
• peremptorily,
• petite,
• petty,
• photodrama,
• photoplay,
• picayune,
• picayunish,
• picture,
• picture show,
• piddling,
• pinched,
• pindling,
• pint-sized,
• pith,
• pithy,
• plug in,
• pocket,
• pointed,
• poky,
• poor,
• poorly off,
• pornographic film,
• precluding,
• preview,
• printed circuit,
• prone,
• pruned,
• puny,
• purport,
• quick,
• quiet,
• rare,
• recumbent,
• reduced,
• reserved,
• rough,
• runty,
• scant,
• scant of,
• scanty,
• scarce,
• scrappy,
• scrimpy,
• sententious,
• series multiple,
• setting aside,
• severe,
• shallow,
• sharp,
• shock,
• short account,
• short and sweet,
• short circuit,
• short interest,
• short of,
• short of funds,
• short of money,
• short seller,
• short side,
• short-circuit,
• short-lived,
• short-term,
• short-termed,
• shorten,
• shortened,
• shorts,
• shy,
• shy of,
• silent,
• silent film,
• sketchy,
• skimp,
• skimpy,
• skin flick,
• skin-deep,
• slender,
• slight,
• small,
• smallish,
• snappish,
• sneak preview,
• snippety,
• snippy,
• snug,
• spaghetti Western,
• sparing of words,
• sparse,
• speechless,
• speedy,
• squat,
• squatty,
• squeezed,
• step down,
• step up,
• stiffen,
• stint,
• stooped,
• stop,
• straight,
• straightforward,
• straitened,
• strapped,
• stubby,
• stumpy,
• stunted,
• succinct,
• sudden,
• suddenly,
• summary,
• superficial,
• supine,
• surly,
• swift,
• switch off,
• switch on,
• synopsized,
• synoptic,
• taciturn,
• talkie,
• talking picture,
• temporary,
• terminate,
• terse,
• testy,
• thick,
• thickset,
• thriller,
• thrust,
• tight,
• tight-lipped,
• tiny,
• to the point,
• tongue-tied,
• trailer,
• transient,
• transitory,
• trifling,
• trim,
• trivial,
• truculent,
• truncated,
• turn off,
• turn on,
• two-by-four,
• unanticipatedly,
• unaware,
• unblessed with,
• uncivil,
• underdeveloped,
• underground film,
• undeveloped,
• unelevated,
• uneven,
• unexpectedly,
• unfinished,
• ungracious,
• unloquacious,
• unmoneyed,
• unperfected,
• unpossessed of,
• unprosperous,
• unreached,
• unsound,
• untalkative,
• unthorough,
• upshot,
• vector field,
• vest-pocket,
• void of,
• wanting,
• wee,
• without warning,
• word-bound,
• wordless