short
/ʃɔrt/
कम
noun
1. short
the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
2. short circuit
accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
3. shortstop
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
verb
1. short-change
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
2. short-circuit
create a short circuit in
adjective
1. short
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
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
"short skirts"
"short hair"
"the board was a foot short"
"a short toss"
3. little
low in stature
not tall
"he was short and stocky"
"short in stature"
"a short smokestack"
"a little man"
4. inadequate, poor, jejune
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
"an inadequate income"
"a poor salary"
"money is short"
"on short rations"
"food is in short supply"
"short on experience"
"the jejune diets of the very poor"
5. unretentive, forgetful
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
"a short memory"
6. short
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
"a short sale"
"short in cotton"
7. short
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
"the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
8. light, scant
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. shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
lacking foresight or scope
"a short view of the problem"
"shortsighted policies"
"shortsighted critics derided the plan"
"myopic thinking"
10. short
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"
11. brusque, brusk, curt
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, dead
quickly and without warning
"he stopped suddenly"
2. short
without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
"he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
3. short
clean across
"the car's axle snapped short"
4. short
at some point or distance before a goal is reached
"he fell short of our expectations"
5. short
so as to interrupt
"She took him up short before he could continue"
6. unawares
at a disadvantage
"I was caught short"
7. curtly, shortly
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
brief limited scanty inadequate insufficient lacking deficient defective imperfect incomplete soon near narrow weak incomprehensive inextensive less abrupt blunt concise condensed
Antonyms
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