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short has 24 distinct synonyms spread across 13 of its 23 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its 2 recorded opposites are long, tall.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
“a short life”
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
“short skirts”
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
“a short sale”
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
“the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short”
the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
5 of the 23 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for short.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for short come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.