"shortest" in the adjective sense
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. short, little
low in stature not tall
"he was short and stocky"
"short in stature"
"a short smokestack"
"a little man"
4. inadequate, poor, short, 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, short
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, short
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. short, 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, short
marked by rude or peremptory shortness
"try to cultivate a less brusque manner"
"a curt reply"
"the salesgirl was very short with him"
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