Synonyms for short

Noun

1. short, tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

usage: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

2. short circuit, short, contact, tangency

usage: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

3. shortstop, short, position

usage: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base

Verb

1. short-change, short, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con

usage: cheat someone by not returning him enough money

2. short-circuit, short, make, create

usage: create a short-circuit in

Adjective

1. short (vs. long), abbreviated, shortened, truncated, brief, little, clipped, fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, short-dated, short-range, short-run, short-term, telescoped, shortened, short and sweet(predicate)

usage: 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"

2. short (vs. long), abbreviated, brief, close, curtal, sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened, shortish, short-range, short-snouted, telescoped, shortened, snub, stubby, truncate, truncated

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

3. short (vs. tall), chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, squab, squabby, small#1, little, low

usage: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"

4. inadequate, poor, short, insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient

usage: 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"

5. short (vs. long)

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

6. short (vs. long)

usage: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')

7. short, tender (vs. tough)

usage: 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"

8. light, scant(predicate), short, insufficient (vs. sufficient), deficient

usage: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

9. short, unstressed (vs. stressed), unaccented

usage: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration

10. short, unretentive (vs. retentive), forgetful

usage: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

11. short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic, improvident (vs. provident)

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

12. short, unforbearing, impatient (vs. patient)

usage: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"

13. choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered, ill-natured (vs. good-natured)

usage: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

14. short, shortest, direct (vs. indirect)

usage: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to town"

15. brusque, brusk, curt, short(predicate), discourteous (vs. courteous)

usage: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

Adverb

1. abruptly, suddenly, short, dead

usage: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

2. short

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

3. short

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

4. short

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

5. short

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

6. short, unawares

usage: at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"

7. short

usage: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"

8. curtly, short, shortly

usage: 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"