Synonyms of the word

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

abbreviated

• adj. Shortened; made briefer.
• adj. Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
• adj. Scanty, as in clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate.

abruptly

• adv. In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly; precipitously.

breakable

• adj. Able to be broken.
• adj. Fragile.
• n. Something that is (easily) breakable.
• n. (usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically…

brief

• adj. Of short duration; happening quickly.
• adj. Concise; taking few words.
• adj. Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
• n. (law) A writ summoning one to answer to any action.
• n. (law) An answer to any action.
• n. (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
• n. (by extension, figuratively) A position of interest or advocacy.
• n. (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
• n. (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who tries the…
• n. (informal) A short news story or report.
• n. (obsolete) A summary, précis or epitome; an abridgement or abstract.
• n. (Britain, historical) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution…
• n. (slang) A ticket of any type.
• v. (transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power.
• v. (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
• adv. (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.

brusk

• adj. (US) Alternative spelling of brusque.

brusque

• adj. Rudely abrupt, unfriendly.

bunco

• n. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
• n. A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women…
• n. brigand.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

chunky

• adj. Having chunks.
• adj. (euphemistic, of a person) Fat.
• n. Alternative form of chunkey (Native American game).

clipped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of clip.
• adj. Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
• adj. (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
• adj. (informal) Circumcised.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

con

• v. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
• v. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
• v. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
• n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
• n. (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
• n. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
• n. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal,…
• v. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
• v. (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through…
• n. (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
• n. An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

curt

• adj. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
• adj. Short or concise.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.

curtal

• n. (historical) A variety of short-barrelled cannon.
• n. (obsolete) A horse or other animal having a docked tail.
• n. (music) An early type of bassoon.
• adj. (obsolete) Of horses, having a docked tail.
• adj. (now rare) Physically shortened; short.
• adj. (obsolete) Abridged, curtailed.

curtly

• adv. In a curt manner; tersely, almost rudely.

dead

• adj. (not comparable) No longer living.
• adj. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
• adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
• adj. Without emotion.
• adj. Stationary; static.
• adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
• adj. Unproductive.
• adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without…
• adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
• adj. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
• adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
• adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
• adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in…
• adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
• adj. (not comparable) Full and complete.
• adj. (not comparable) Exact.
• adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
• adj. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
• adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
• adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
• adj. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
• adv. (degree) Exactly right.
• adv. (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
• adv. As if dead.
• n. (uncountable, singular only, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
• n. (plural, with "the") Those who have died.
• v. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
• v. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

deficient

• adj. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
• adj. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper…

defraud

• v. (transitive) To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

discourteous

• adj. impolite; lacking consideration for others.

dumpy

• adj. short and thick; stout or stocky.
• n. (South Africa) A small bottle of beer.

fleeting

• adj. Passing quickly.
• v. present participle of fleet.

forgetful

• adj. unable to remember things well; liable to forget.
• adj. (mathematics) Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.

fugitive

• n. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises…
• adj. fleeing or running away.
• adj. transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
• adj. elusive or difficult to retain.

gip

• v. Alternative form of gyp.
• n. A servant; a gyp.
• v. To take out the entrails of (herrings).

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

gyp

• n. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• n. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• v. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
• n. Gypsophila.
• n. Pain or discomfort.

hornswoggle

• v. (transitive) To deceive or trick.

improvident

• adj. failing to provide for the future; reckless.
• adj. incautious; prone to rashness.

inadequate

• adj. Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient.
• n. An individual who is inadequate.

insufficient

• adj. Not sufficient.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

low

• adj. In a position comparatively close to the ground.
• adj. Small in height.
• adj. Situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation.
• adj. Depressed, sad.
• adj. Not high in amount or quantity.
• adj. Of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency.
• adj. Quiet; soft; not loud.
• adj. Despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar.
• adj. Lacking health or vitality; feeble; weak.
• adj. Being near the equator.
• adj. Humble in character or status.
• adj. Simple in complexity or development.
• adj. Designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear.
• adj. Articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette.
• adj. (phonetics) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate.
• adj. (archaic) Not rich, highly seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple.
• n. Something that is low; a low point.
• n. A depressed mood or situation.
• n. (meteorology) An area of low pressure; a depression.
• n. The lowest-speed gearing of a power-transmission system, especially of an automotive vehicle.
• n. (card games) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
• n. (slang) (usually accompanied by "the") a cheap, cost-efficient, or advantageous payment or expense.
• adv. Close to the ground.
• adv. Of a pitch, at a lower frequency.
• adv. With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently.
• adv. Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply.
• adv. In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
• adv. In a time approaching our own.
• adv. (astronomy) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To depress; to lower.
• v. obsolete simple past tense of laugh.
• v. (intransitive) To moo.
• n. (countable, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A flame; fire; blaze.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To burn; to blaze.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Barrow, mound, tumulus.
• n. (Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mindless

• adj. Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
• adj. Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
• adj. Heedless.
• adj. (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
• adj. Lacking a mind.

momentaneous

• adj. (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that takes place at a specific…
• adj. (archaic) momentary.

momentary

• adj. Lasting for only a moment.
• adj. Happening at every moment; perpetual.
• adj. Ephemeral or relatively short-lived.

mulct

• n. (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
• v. To impose such a fine or penalty.
• v. To swindle (someone) out of money.

myopic

• adj. near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
• adj. shortsighted; improvident.
• adj. narrow minded.
• n. A short-sighted individual.

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

parcel

• n. A package wrapped for shipment.
• n. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
• n. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
• n. (obsolete) A group of birds.
• n. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
• n. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
• n. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
• v. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
• v. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
• v. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
• v. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
• adv. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

pint-size

• adj. pint-sized.

pint-sized

• adj. (colloquial) Comparatively small in size.

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

rook

• n. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
• n. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
• n. (Britain) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
• n. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• n. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally)…
• n. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
• n. (baseball, slang) A rookie.
• n. mist; fog; roke.
• v. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of look.

runty

• adj. Having the characteristics of a runt; small and stunted.
• adj. diminutive.

sawed-off

• adj. Shortened by sawing.
• adj. (slang) Short (as though something that should be there isn't).

sawn-off

• n. sawn-off shotgun.

scam

• n. A fraudulent deal.
• n. Something that is promoted using scams.
• v. (transitive) To defraud or embezzle.

scant

• adj. Very little, very few.
• adj. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
• adj. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
• v. (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
• v. (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
• n. (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
• n. (masonry) A sheet of stone.
• n. (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
• adv. With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

short-change

• v. Alternative form of shortchange.

short-circuit

• v. Alternative spelling of short circuit.

short-range

• adj. Intended for use on something close or nearby.

short-term

• adj. of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.
• adj. of or pertaining to a short duration of time.

shortened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of shorten.

shortish

• adj. Somewhat short; moderately short.

shortly

• adv. In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
• adv. In or after a short time; soon.
• adv. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly.
• adv. In an irritable ("short") manner.

shortsighted

• adj. Alternative spelling of short-sighted.

shortstop

• n. (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.
• n. (figuratively) A nimble defender.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

snub

• adj. Conspicuously short.
• adj. (mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
• n. A deliberate affront or slight.
• n. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
• n. (obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
• v. (transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
• v. (transitive) To turn down; to dismiss.
• v. (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
• v. (transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure…
• v. (transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
• v. To sob with convulsions.

squab

• n. A baby pigeon or dove.
• n. The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
• n. A baby rook.
• n. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
• n. A person of a short, fat figure.
• v. (obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.
• adj. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
• adj. Unfledged; unfeathered.
• adv. (slang) With a heavy fall; plump.

squabby

• adj. Short and thick; squabbish.

squat

• adj. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
• adj. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
• n. A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• n. (weightlifting) A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then…
• n. A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
• n. A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
• n. (slang) Something of no value; nothing.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
• n. (mining) A small vein of ore.
• n. A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
• v. To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
• v. (weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across…
• v. To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
• v. To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or…
• v. (dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
• n. The angel shark (genus Squatina).

squatty

• adj. Somewhat squat.

stubby

• adj. Abounding with stubs.
• adj. Like a stub; short, especially cut short, thick and stiff; stunted; stubbed.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A small, squat beer bottle.

stumpy

• adj. Like or resembling a stump, short and cut off.

suddenly

• adv. Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

tangency

• n. The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.

telescoped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of telescope.

tract

• n. An area or expanse.
• n. A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
• n. A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
• n. A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
• n. A commentator's view or perspective on a subject.
• n. Continued or protracted duration, length, extent.
• n. Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used…
• n. (obsolete) Continuity or extension of anything.
• n. (obsolete) Traits; features; lineaments.
• n. (obsolete) The footprint of a wild animal.
• n. (obsolete) Track; trace.
• n. (obsolete) Treatment; exposition.
• v. (obsolete) To pursue, follow; to track.
• v. (obsolete) To draw out; to protract.

truncate

• v. To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
• v. (mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
• v. (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
• adj. Truncated.
• adj. (botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

truncated

• adj. Deprived of one of its parts or of its end.
• adj. Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of truncate.

unawares

• adv. unexpectedly or by surprise.
• adv. inadvertently.
• adv. without plan or forethought.

unmindful

• adj. lacking awareness; oblivious.
• adj. failing to remember or recognize something; heedless.

unretentive

• adj. Not retentive.

victimize

• v. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
• v. To punish someone unjustly.
• v. To swindle or defraud someone.