Shortness


Synonyms for shortness
noun inability, unwillingness to wait

nervousness
annoyance
anxiety
eagerness
excitement
uneasiness
anger
restlessness

irritability
intolerance
hastiness
disquietude
agitation
violence
avidity
heat

vehemence
suspense
restiveness
haste
expectancy
rashness
edginess
fretfulness

impetuosity
ants in pants
irritableness
quick temper
snappiness

Antonyms for shortness

calm
calmness
happiness
joy
contentment
apathy

control
forbearance
patience
enjoyment
peace
ease

endurance
tolerance
waiting
willingness

Synonyms
noun deficiency, need

loss
shortfall
inadequacy
reduction
dearth
paucity
absence
poverty
scarcity
shortage

shortcoming
distress
privation
defect
decrease
want
meagerness
shrinking
stint
shrinkage

depletion
deficit
abridgement
exigency
destitution
inferiority
insufficiency
curtailment
necessity
miss

default
deprivation
scantiness
slightness
retrenchment
exiguity
insufficience

Antonyms

success
enough
plenty
sufficiency
abundance
affluence

advantage
perfection
enlargement
expansion
increase
extra

plethora
profusion
surplus
excess
addition
lot

Synonyms
noun littleness

narrowness
scantiness
brevity
slightness

petiteness
diminutiveness
tininess
minuteness

atomity
dinkiness
infinitesimalness
small size

smallishness

Concept Thesaurus for word shortness
2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS
Synonyms – noun

shortness
shortening
concision
reduction (contraction)
conciseness (in style)

brevity
abbreviation
retrenchment
epitome (compendium)
abridger

littleness
abbreviature
curtailment
elision
epitomist

a span.
abridgment
decuration
ellipsis
epitomizer.

Synonyms – verbs

be short
abridge
compress (contract)
obtruncate
hack
clip
shear
crop
stunt

render short
abbreviate
epitomize
scrimp
hew
dock
shave
snub
nip

shorten
take in
retrench
cut
cut down
lop
mow
truncate
check the growth of

curtail
reduce
cut short
chop up
pare down
prune
reap
pollard
[in drawing] foreshorten.

Synonyms – adjectives

short
compact
stubbed
chunky [U.S.]
squab
little
concise

brief
stubby
stumpy
decurtate
squabby
curtailed of its fair proportions
summary.

curt
scrimp
thickset
retrousse
squat
short by

compendious
shorn
pug
stocky
dumpy
oblate

Antonyms

length

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