short

1. adjective

1)

a short piece of string

Syn:

small, little, tiny; informal teeny

Ant:

long

2)

short people

Syn:

small, little, petite, tiny, diminutive, stubby, elfin, dwarfish, midget, pygmy, Lilliputian, minuscule, miniature; informal pint-sized, vertically challenged, teeny, knee-high to a grasshopper; Scottish wee

Ant:

tall

3)

a short report

Syn:

concise, brief, succinct, compact, summary, economical, crisp, pithy, epigrammatic, laconic, thumbnail, capsule, abridged, abbreviated, condensed, synoptic, summarized, contracted, truncated; formal compendious

Ant:

long, verbose

4)

a short time

Syn:

brief, momentary, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, cursory, fleeting, passing, fugitive, lightning, transitory, transient, ephemeral, quick

Ant:

long

5)

money is a bit short

Syn:

scarce, in short supply, scant, meager, sparse, insufficient, deficient, inadequate, lacking, wanting, tight; rare exiguous

Ant:

plentiful

6)

he was rather short with her

Syn:

curt, sharp, abrupt, blunt, brusque, terse, offhand, gruff, surly, testy, rude, uncivil; informal snappy, snappish

Ant:

patient, courteous

2. adverb

she stopped short

- in short

- short of

Syn:

abruptly, suddenly, sharply, all of a sudden, all at once, unexpectedly, without warning, out of the blue