Adjective
1. primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration;
"a short life""a short flight""a short holiday""a short story""only a few short months"2. primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length;
"short skirts""short hair""the board was a foot short""a short toss"3. low in stature; not tall;
"his was short and stocky""short in stature""a short smokestack"4. not sufficient to meet a need;
"an inadequate income""a poor salary""money is short""on short rations""food is in short supply""short on experience"5. not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices;
"a short sale""short in cotton"6. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively short duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt')
7. containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender and easy to crumble or break into flakes;
"shortbread is a short crumbly cookie""a short flaky pie crust"8. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so;
"a light pound""a scant cup of sugar""regularly gives short weight"9. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief duration
10. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range;
"a short memory"11. lacking foresight or scope;
"a short view of the problem""shortsighted policies""shortsighted critics derided the plan""myopic thinking"12. unwilling to endure;
"she was short with the slower students"13. quickly aroused to anger;
"a hotheaded commander"14. most direct;
"took the shortest and most direct route to town"15. marked by rude or peremptory shortness;
"try to cultivate a less brusque manner""a curt reply""the salesgirl was very short with him"