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- a lot of boys are shorter than the girls in middle school, but they quickly catch up by high school
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- diminutive,
- half-pint,
- pint-size
- (or pint-sized),
- pocket,
- pocket-size
- (also pocket-sized),
- pygmy,
- small,
- smallish
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- fortunately for those of us in the hot sun, the graduation speech was short and to the point
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- extended,
- far,
- great,
- lengthy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out
- (or long-drawn),
- long-lived
- regrettably, the art supplies are short this year, so you'll have to share
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- short pastry
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- I didn't mean to be so short with you by responding to your request with a snippy "I'm busy!"
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adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of short (Entry 2 of 4)
- the bicyclist ahead of me unexpectedly pulled up short and I unavoidably plowed into him
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- all of a sudden
- (also on a sudden)
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verbSynonyms of short (Entry 3 of 4)
- charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years
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- beat,
- bilk,
- bleed,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- con,
- cozen,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- do,
- do in,
- euchre,
- fiddle,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- gaff,
- hose
- [slang],
- hustle,
- mulct,
- nobble
- [British slang],
- pluck,
- ream,
- rip off,
- rook,
- screw,
- shake down,
- shortchange,
- skin,
- skunk,
- squeeze,
- stick,
- stiff,
- sting,
- sucker,
- swindle,
- thimblerig,
- victimize
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nounSynonyms of short (Entry 4 of 4)
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The first known use of short was before the 12th century
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