Synonyms of the word shortly


SHORTLYBRIEFLY - CONCISELY - CURTLY - PRESENTLY - SHORT - SOON

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.

briefly

  • adv. (manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
  • adv. (duration) For a brief period.
  • adv. (speech act) To be brief, in short.

concisely

  • adv. In a concise manner, briefly, without excessive length.

curtly

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

presently

  • adv. (now Britain, rare) Immediately, at once; quickly.
  • adv. Before long; soon.
  • adv. At the present time; now; currently.
  • adv. (obsolete) With actual presence; in actuality.

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.

soon

  • adj. Short in length of time from the present.
  • adj. (US, dialect) early.
  • adv. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
  • adv. Within a short time; quickly.
  • adv. Early.
  • adv. Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.

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