Synonyms of short
- 1 Syllable
- straight, scant, bluff, void, gruff, nub, toyer, thrust, cross, small, brief, gist, tart, sans, few, curt, crisp, bare, swift, soon
- 2 Syllables
- snubber, proofer, dwarfish, runtish, runted, shorting, succinct, curter, thoughtless, huffy, soonest, fewer, straightest, hasty, spared, parter, shorted, hastier, lacking, scanty, crumbly, bluffed, littler, fewest, unbent, scarcer, gruffer, swiftest, crustier, transient, terse, missing, junker, rarest, swifter, straighter, crosser, thumbnail, failing, hastiest, crusty, wanting, voiding, bitty, shrimpy, scrubber, pithy, little, pointed, tarter, crisper, passing, crumblier, meager, speedball, pithier, scantiest, bluffer, supplier, scarcest, huffier, scantier, scrimpy, ruder, skimpier, smallish, rudest, voider, gruffest, skimpy, fleeting, short-term, short-haul, short-run, sooner, pithiest, standout, brusque, half-done, whirlwind, lamster, hurried, half-assed, stunted, huffish
- 3 Syllables
- double-quick, fleet-footed, barrelling, unthoughtful, concise, hot-headed, condensed, rarer, unmoneyed, suddenly, marrowy, summary, rinkydink, unwilted, subtilest, laconic, cyclonic, uncurled, unthriving, deciduous, shortlived, decreased, precise, asocial, asudden, shortened, compressed, curtailed, lessened, compendious, curtate, sententious, undergrown, short-spoken, cursory, fleetfooted, padlocked, niggardly, deficient, synoptic, rinky-dink, short-lived, subtiler, collinear, short-and-sweet, short-range
- 4 Syllables
- incomplete, diminished, fugitive, temporary, miniscule, abbreviate, aphoristic, unsufficient, rectilineal, abbreviated, summarized, breviloquent, impencunious, compendiary, decurtate, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained, ephemeral, unwelcoming, rationalness, undermanned, insufficient, momentary, unknowingly
- 5 Syllables
- unceremonious, poverty-stricken, epigrammatic, unreceptive, inhospitable, denotatiton, inadequate, unaccomplished, unexecuted, unconsummated
- 6 Syllables
- inconsiderate
- 7 Syllables
- uncommunicative