short

dwarf, dwarfish

compact, petite, slight

diminutive, half-pint, pint-size (or pint-sized), pocket, pocket-size (also pocket-sized), pygmy, small, smallish

bantam, bitty, dinky, mini, miniature, minimized, minute, puny, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, undersized (also undersize), wee

dumpy, flat, scrubby, squat, squatty, stubby, stumpy, stunted

shortish

abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut-back, shortened, syncopated

compact, condensed

abrupt, sudden

ephemeral, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, transient, transitory

impermanent

compendious, concise, crisp, epigrammatic, laconic, pithy, succinct, summary, terse

short-range, short-term

substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory

hand-to-mouth, lean, light, meager (or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingy

bare, mere, minimum

slight, small

crackly, crisped, crispened, crunchy, crusty

breakable, delicate, fragile

gruff, rough, snappish

candid, direct, forthright, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, point-blank, straightforward, straight-out

artless, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, rude, tactless, undiplomatic

brief, closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, terse, tight-lipped

earnest, honest, sincere

coarse, crass, crude, low, uncouth, vulgar