American English pronunciation

How to pronounce shortest

IPA transcription: ['ʃɔɹtɪst]

Pronunciation variants: ['ʃɔɹtɪst]['ʃɚtɪst]

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Adjective

  • 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”

  • (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

    “short skirts”

    “short hair”

    “the board was a foot short”

    “a short toss”

  • low in stature; not tall

    “he was short and stocky”

    “short in stature”

    “a short smokestack”

    “a little man”

  • (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

    “a short memory”

  • not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

    “a short sale”

    “short in cotton”

  • of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

    “the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short”

Adjective

  • lacking foresight or scope

    “a short view of the problem”

    “shortsighted policies”

    “shortsighted critics derided the plan”

    “myopic thinking”

  • 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”

  • less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

    “a light pound”

    “a scant cup of sugar”

    “regularly gives short weight”

  • tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

    “shortbread is a short crumbly cookie”

    “a short flaky pie crust”

  • marked by rude or peremptory shortness

    “try to cultivate a less brusque manner”

    “a curt reply”

    “the salesgirl was very short with him”

Usage examples

  • Simmons thereby set the record for the shortest federal Cabinet career in Canadian history.
  • Shortest person in front, all the way to the tallest person in the rear.
  • Shortest remaining time is advantageous because short processes are handled very quickly.
  • It was the second shortest parliament in Canadian history.
  • At the Kimmirut airstrip is the second shortest in Nunavut.
  • Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
  • At five-feet-two-inches tall, she was one of the shortest players on the court.
  • It is not the shortest in the original languages.
  • Good company on the road is the shortest cut.
  • It is the shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar.