Definition of short
low in stature; not tall; "he was
short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a
short smokestack"; "a
little man"
of
speech sounds or syllables of
relatively short duration; "the English
vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
lacking foresight or scope; "a
short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
so as to interrupt; "She took him up
short before he could continue"
at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
in a curt,
abrupt and
discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked
short with everyone"; "he
said shortly that he didn't
like it"