Short synonyms

141 synonyms for short such as crispy, direct, lilliputian, brief, abbreviated, deficient in, at a premium, abrupt, brittle, and crisp. Short is an adjective, and its antonyms are long, tall, and roundabout.

Another word for short

1. small

Direct, dwarf, little, low, miniature, minuscule, small, squat, straight, stubby, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, and wee.

2. dumpy

Lilliputian, diminutive, dumpy, dwarfish, elfin, fubsy, knee-high to a grasshopper, little, petite, pint-sized, pocket-sized, small, squat, stocky, stubby, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, and wee.

3. brief

Brief, cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fleeting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, lightning, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, short-term, temporary, transient, and transitory.

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, and truncated.

5. deficient in

Deficient in, in need of, lacking (in), low on, minus, missing, pushed for, short on, strapped for, wanting (in), with an insufficiency of, and with too few/little ….

6. scarce

At a premium, deficient, exiguous, 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, and wanting.

7. curt

Abrupt, bad-mannered, blunt, brusque, curt, discourteous, graceless, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, offhand, rude, sharp, snappy, surly, tart, terse, testy, uncivil, and ungracious.

8. crumbly

Brittle, crisp, crispy, crumbly, fatty, friable, and shortcrust.

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