Short Synonyms

1. small

• Direct
• Dwarf
• Little
• Low
• Miniature
• Minuscule
• Small
• Squat
• Stubby
• Teeny-weeny
• Teeny
• Tiny
• Wee
• Straight

2. dumpy

• Lilliputian
• Diminutive
• Dumpy
• Dwarfish
• Elfin
• Knee-high to a grasshopper
• Little
• Petite
• Pint-sized
• Pocket-sized
• Small
• Squat
• Stocky
• Stubby
• Teeny-weeny
• Teeny
• Tiny
• Wee
• Fubsy

3. brief

• Brief
• Cursory
• Ephemeral
• Evanescent
• Fading
• Fleeting
• Flying
• Fugitive
• Impermanent
• Lightning
• Meteoric
• Momentary
• Passing
• Quick
• Short-lived
• Short-term
• Temporary
• Transient
• Transitory
• Fugacious

4. concise

• Abbreviated
• Abridged
• Brief
• Compact
• Compendious
• Concise
• Condensed
• Contracted
• Crisp
• Curt
• Curtailed
• Economical
• Epigrammatic
• Laconic
• Pithy
• Pointed
• Short and sweet
• Succinct
• Summarized
• Summary
• Synoptic
• Terse
• Thumbnail
• To the point
• Truncated

5. deficient in

• Deficient in
• In need of
• Lacking (in)
• Low on
• Missing
• Pushed for
• Short on
• Strapped for
• Wanting (in)
• With an insufficiency of
• With too few/little …
• Minus

6. scarce

• At a premium
• Deficient
• Hard to come by
• Hard to find
• In short supply
• Inadequate
• Insufficient
• Lacking
• Like gold dust
• Meagre
• Negligible
• Not enough
• Not to be had
• Paltry
• Scant
• Scanty
• Scarce
• Scarcer than hen's teeth
• Sparse
• Thin
• Too little
• Wanting
• Exiguous

7. curt

• Abrupt
• Blunt
• Brusque
• Curt
• Discourteous
• Graceless
• Gruff
• Ill-mannered
• Impolite
• Offhand
• Rude
• Sharp
• Snappy
• Surly
• Tart
• Terse
• Testy
• Uncivil
• Ungracious
• Bad-mannered

8. crumbly

• Brittle
• Crisp
• Crispy
• Crumbly
• Fatty
• Friable
• Shortcrust