Short

Synonyms Small, tiny, teeny, low, stubby, dwarf, direct, little, minuscule, teeny-weeny, squat, miniature, wee, and straight.

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

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

Synonyms Concise, succinct, compact, curt, economical, short and sweet, epigrammatic, pointed, abridged, condensed, compendious, contracted, truncated, brief, to the point, terse, summary, crisp, pithy, laconic, thumbnail, abbreviated, synoptic, summarized, and curtailed.

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

Synonyms Scarce, scant, meagre, hard to find, not enough, insufficient, inadequate, wanting, like gold dust, scarcer than hen's teeth, negligible, exiguous, in short supply, scanty, sparse, hard to come by, too little, deficient, lacking, at a premium, not to be had, paltry, and thin.

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

Synonyms Crumbly, crisp, friable, shortcrust, crispy, brittle, and fatty.