Idioms for short
Origin of short
before 900; Middle English
schort (adj.), Old English
sceort; cognate with Old High German
scurz short, Old Norse
skortr shortness, scarcity
SYNONYMS FOR short
4
Short,
brief are opposed to
long, and indicate slight extent or duration.
Short may imply duration but is also applied to physical distance and certain purely spatial relations:
a short journey.
Brief refers especially to duration of time:
brief intervals.
5 terse, succinct, laconic, condensed.
6 curt, sharp, testy.
7 poor, deficient, inadequate, wanting, lacking.
12 crumbly.
14 brachycephalic.
OTHER WORDS FROM short
short·ness, noun o·ver·short, adjective o·ver·short·ness, noun un·short, adjectiveWords nearby short
shoreward,
shoreweed,
shorewood,
shoring,
shorn,
short,
short account,
short and sweet,
short ballot,
short bill,
short bone
British Dictionary definitions for cut short
See also
shorts
Derived forms of short
shortness, nounWord Origin for short
Old English
scort; related to Old Norse
skortr a lack,
skera to cut, Old High German
scurz short
Idioms and Phrases with cut short (1 of 2)
cut short
Abbreviate, stop abruptly, as in The thunderstorm cut short our picnic, or She cut her short, saying she'd already heard the story of their breakup. Shakespeare used this term to mean “put a sudden end to someone's life”: “Rather than bloody war shall cut them short” (2 Henry VI, 4:4), a less common usage today. The broader usage dates from the mid-1600s.
Idioms and Phrases with cut short (2 of 2)
short