short

short is a 5-letter English word with 44 senses as adverb, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 44 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
2. superlative. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
3. superlative. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. superlative. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
5. superlative. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
6. superlative. Not distant in time; near at hand.
7. superlative. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
8. superlative. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
9. superlative. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
10. superlative. Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
11. superlative. Brittle.
12. superlative. Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
13. adverb. Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
14. noun. A summary account.
15. noun. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
16. noun. Short, inferior hemp.
17. noun. Breeches; shortclothes.
18. noun. A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
19. adverb. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
20. transitive verb. To shorten.
21. intransitive verb. To fail; to decrease.
22. noun. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

    Synonyms: shortstop

23. noun. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
24. noun. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
25. verb. create a short circuit in
26. verb. cheat someone by not returning him enough money
27. adjective. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

    "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"

    "a curt reply"

    Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt

28. adjective. 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"

29. adjective. (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

    "short skirts"

    "short hair"

30. adjective. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

    "a short life"

    "a short flight"

31. adjective. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

    "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

32. adjective. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

    "a short sale"

    "short in cotton"

33. adjective. lacking foresight or scope

    "a short view of the problem"

    "shortsighted policies"

    Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful

34. adjective. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

    "a short memory"

    Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive

35. adjective. not sufficient to meet a need

    "an inadequate income"

    "a poor salary"

    Synonyms: inadequate, poor

36. adjective. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

    "a light pound"

    "a scant cup of sugar"

    Synonyms: light, scant

37. adjective. low in stature; not tall

    "he was short and stocky"

    "short in stature"

    Synonyms: little

38. adverb. quickly and without warning

    "he stopped suddenly"

    Synonyms: abruptly, dead, suddenly

39. adverb. in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

    "he told me curtly to get on with it"

    "he talked short with everyone"

    Synonyms: curtly, shortly

40. adverb. at a disadvantage

    "I was caught short"

    Synonyms: unawares

41. adverb. so as to interrupt

    "She took him up short before he could continue"

42. adverb. at some point or distance before a goal is reached

    "he fell short of our expectations"

43. adverb. clean across

    "the car's axle snapped short"

44. adverb. without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

    "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

Synonyms

shortstop, brusk, brusque, curt, myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful, forgetful, unretentive, inadequate, poor, light, scant, little, abruptly, dead, suddenly, curtly, shortly, unawares

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in short:

horst

Common word forms

shorts, shorted, shorten, shorter, shortly, shortest, shorting, shortness

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