Shortness Synonyms and Antonyms

The property of being of short temporal extent
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. brevity
  2. briefness
  3. truncation
  4. abruptness
  5. brusqueness
  6. conciseness
  7. curtness
  8. gruffness
Antonyms:
  1. longness
The property of being shorter than average stature
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. tallness
  2. longness

Shortness Sentence Examples

  • Another striking feature is shortness of legs relatively to length of trunk.

  • In Europe the same physical traitsrelative length of head and shortness of legsdistinguish the central race (Alpine) from the Teutonic, and seem to indicate an affinity between the former and the Mongols.

  • They run with considerable speed, notwithstanding the shortness of their legs.

  • Trouble, however, soon arose over Zacynthus, and the Spartans not only sent help to the Zacynthian oligarchs but even besieged Corcyra (373) Timotheus was sent to relieve the island, but shortness of money compelled him to search for new allies, and he spent the summer of 373 in persuading Jason of Pherae (if he had not already joined), and certain towns in Thrace, the Chersonese, the Propontis and the Aegean to enrol themselves.

  • The lines of the trunk series are double but for the sake of shortness the least refrangible component is here omitted.

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