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'shortest'

[short.a.01] as in: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

Examples:
a short life
a short flight
a short holiday
a short story
only a few short months

short, short_circuit, shortstop, short-change, short-circuit, short, short, short, inadequate, unretentive, short, short, light, short, short, brusque, abruptly, short, short, short, short, short, curtly

fleeting, short_and_sweet, short-range, clipped, short-run, brief, short-dated, abbreviated, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, abruptness

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hanker, long, long, long, retentive, long, long, long, farseeing, long, long, long

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abruptly, abruptness, brusque, curtly, farseeing, grandiloquent, hanker, improbable, inadequate, light, long, retentive, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortness, shortstop, tall, unretentive

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'shortest'

[short.a.02] as in: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

Examples:
short skirts
short hair
the board was a foot short
a short toss

shortish, truncate, sawed-off, telescoped, curtal, short-snouted, stubby, short-range, snub, abbreviated, close, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, abruptness

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hanker, long, long, long, retentive, long, long, long, farseeing, long, long, long

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'shortest'

[short.a.03] as in: low in stature; not tall

Examples:
he was short and stocky
short in stature
a short smokestack
a little man

low, compact, chunky, half-length, squab, pint-size, short-stalked, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, abruptness

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tall, tall, grandiloquent, tall, improbable

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abject, abruptly, abruptness, belittled, broken, brusque, curtly, depleted, farseeing, fiddling, first_gear, gloomy, grandiloquent, hanker, humble, improbable, inadequate, light, little, long, low, low_spirits, minor, modest, moo, retentive, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortness, shortstop, small, tall, unretentive

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'shortest'

[inadequate.s.01] as in: not sufficient to meet a need

Examples:
an inadequate income
a poor salary
money is short
on short rations
food is in short supply
short on experience

inadequate, inadequate, poor_people, hapless, poor, poor, poor, poor, short, short_circuit, shortstop, short-change, short-circuit, short, short, short, unretentive, short, short, light, short, short, brusque, abruptly, short, short, short, short, short, curtly

insufficient, inadequacy, poverty, poorness, meagerness, poorness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, abruptness

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inadequate

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abruptly, abruptness, brusque, curtly, hapless, inadequacy, inadequate, insufficiency, insufficient, lean, light, list, poor, poor_people, poverty, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortness, shortstop, tend, thin, tilt, unretentive

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'shortest'

[unretentive.a.01] as in: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

Examples:
a short memory

unretentive, unmindful, forgetful, short, short_circuit, shortstop, short-change, short-circuit, short, short, short, inadequate, short, short, light, short, short, brusque, abruptly, short, short, short, short, short, curtly

unmindful, forgetfulness, forgetfulness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, abruptness

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retentive, retentive, retentive

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unretentive

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abruptly, abruptness, brusque, curtly, inadequate, light, oblivious, retentive, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortness, shortstop, unmindful, unretentive

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'shortest'

[short.a.06] as in: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

Examples:
a short sale
short in cotton

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hanker, long, long, long, retentive, long, long, long, farseeing, long, long, long

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finance

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abruptly, brusque, curtly, farseeing, grandiloquent, hanker, improbable, inadequate, light, long, retentive, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortstop, tall, unretentive

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'shortest'

[short.a.07] as in: of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

Examples:
the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short

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hanker, long, long, long, retentive, long, long, long, farseeing, long, long, long

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phonetics

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abruptly, brusque, curtly, farseeing, grandiloquent, hanker, improbable, inadequate, light, long, retentive, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortstop, tall, unretentive

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'shortest'

[light.s.10] as in: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

Examples:
a light pound
a scant cup of sugar
regularly gives short weight

light, light, light, luminosity, light, light, light, light, light, light, sparkle, light, inner_light, light, lighter, light, light_up, alight, ignite, fall, unhorse, light, light, light, light, light, light, unaccented, light, light, clean, light, light, light, light, faint, light, abstemious, light, light, light, idle, light, light, light, easy, lightly, skimp, scant, stint, short, short_circuit, shortstop, short-change, short-circuit, short, short, short, inadequate, unretentive, short, short, short, short, brusque, abruptly, short, short, short, short, short, curtly

insufficient, meagerness

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light

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abruptly, abstemious, alight, brusque, clean, curtly, day, easy, erupt, faint, fall, idle, ignite, inadequate, inflame, inner_light, insufficient, light, light_up, lighter, lightly, luminosity, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortstop, sidereal_day, sparkle, unaccented, unhorse, unretentive

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'shortest'

[short.s.03] as in: lacking foresight or scope

Examples:
a short view of the problem
shortsighted policies
shortsighted critics derided the plan
myopic thinking

improvident, myopia, improvidence

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short

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abruptly, brusque, curtly, ill-considered, improvidence, improvident, inadequate, light, myopia, nearsighted, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortstop, unretentive

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'shortest'

[short.s.04] as in: tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

Examples:
shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
a short flaky pie crust

breakable

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abruptly, breakable, brusque, curtly, inadequate, light, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortstop, unretentive

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'shortest'

[brusque.s.01] as in: marked by rude or peremptory shortness

Examples:
try to cultivate a less brusque manner
a curt reply
the salesgirl was very short with him

brusque, crisp, short, short_circuit, shortstop, short-change, short-circuit, short, short, short, inadequate, unretentive, short, short, light, short, short, abruptly, short, short, short, short, short, curtly

discourteous, abruptness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness, shortness

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brusque

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abruptly, abruptness, brusque, curtly, discourteous, inadequate, light, short, short-change, short-circuit, short_circuit, shortness, shortstop, unretentive

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