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short:
- bajo; bajito; chico
- brusco; seco; repentino; secamente; perecedero; pasajero; transitorio
Wiktionary:
- be short → carecer, faltar
- short → corto, bajo
- short → corto, cortocircuito
- short → corto, breve, arisco, áspero, brusco, rudo, seco, ahorrador, ahorrativa, ahorradora, ahorrativo, económica, parsimoniosa, parsimonioso, económico, a corto plazo, por poco tiempo, tierno, bajo

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Detailed Translations for be short from English to Spanish

be short form of short:

short adj

short (small; little; tiny; minuscule; diminutive; undersized; inferior; inadequate; low-grade; middling; shortish)
bajo; bajito; chico
- bajo adj
- bajito adj
- chico adj

short adj

short (abrupt; blunt; curt; steep)
brusco; seco; repentino; secamente
- brusco adj
- seco adj
- repentino adj
- secamente adj
short (perishing; evanescent; transient; volatile; transitory; temporary; fleeting; passing; momentary; perfunctory; superficial; of short duration; brief; close; casual; current; empty; null; informal; cursory)
perecedero; pasajero; transitorio
- perecedero adj
- pasajero adj
- transitorio adj

Translation Matrix for short:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
bajo		bass; contrabass; sandbank
chico		baby; baby boy; bloke; chap; child; cove; fellow; gent; guy; infant; kid; kiddy; lad; lass; little boy; little chap; little child; little girl; little kid; male; man; mister; naughty boy; nipper; rascal; scamp; small child; small one; sonny; tike; tiny tot; toddler; tot; tyke; type; youth
pasajero		occupant; passenger; traveler; traveller
-	short circuit; shortstop
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	short-change; short-circuit
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	brusk; brusque; curt; forgetful; inadequate; light; little; myopic; poor; scant; shortsighted; unforesightful; unretentive
Adverb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	abruptly; curtly; dead; shortly; suddenly; unawares
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	short in stature; short of stature
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
bajito	diminutive; inadequate; inferior; little; low-grade; middling; minuscule; short; shortish; small; tiny; undersized	on the quiet; on the sly; sneakily
bajo	diminutive; inadequate; inferior; little; low-grade; middling; minuscule; short; shortish; small; tiny; undersized	bad; banal; base; behind one's back; below the belt; blackguardly; coarse; crude; cunning; false; falsely; foul; gross; indecent; indigent; inferior; jarring; low; low-hanging; mean; nasty; needy; not high; offensive; pedestrian; pennyless; poor; ribald; roguish; rotten; scoundrelly; scurvy; secretly; shabby; sharp; shrewd; slippery; sly; trite; trivial; under; underhand; unmannerly; unsavory; unsavoury; vapid; vicious; vile; villainous; vulgar
brusco	abrupt; blunt; curt; short; steep	abrupt; abruptly; acrid; agressive; all at once; all of a sudden; at once; blunt; brusque; brutal; catty; curt; cutting; embittered; exasperated; fast; fierce; hard; hard-handed; harsh; inhuman; nipping; offensive; out of the blue; pityless; querulous; quick; rapid; rough; ruthless; snappish; snappy; snarling; speedy; sudden; suddenly; suppressed; swift; swiftly; unexpectedly; violent
chico	diminutive; inadequate; inferior; little; low-grade; middling; minuscule; short; shortish; small; tiny; undersized
pasajero	brief; casual; close; current; cursory; empty; evanescent; fleeting; informal; momentary; null; of short duration; passing; perfunctory; perishing; short; superficial; temporary; transient; transitory; volatile	brief; cursory; fast; temporal
perecedero	brief; casual; close; current; cursory; empty; evanescent; fleeting; informal; momentary; null; of short duration; passing; perfunctory; perishing; short; superficial; temporary; transient; transitory; volatile
repentino	abrupt; blunt; curt; short; steep	abrupt; abruptly; all at once; all of a sudden; at once; blunt; brusque; fast; out of the blue; quick; rapid; speedy; sudden; suddenly; swift; swiftly; unexpected; unexpectedly; unsuspected; without warning
secamente	abrupt; blunt; curt; short; steep	in a word; in brief; in short; without detours
seco	abrupt; blunt; curt; short; steep	acrid; barren; brusque; curt; dried up; dry; parced; ran dry; scorched; snappish; snappy; withered
transitorio	brief; casual; close; current; cursory; empty; evanescent; fleeting; informal; momentary; null; of short duration; passing; perfunctory; perishing; short; superficial; temporary; transient; transitory; volatile	for now; in the near future; in the time coming; temporal

Related Words for "short":

shortness, shortest, shortly, shorten

Synonyms for "short":

abbreviated; shortened; truncated; brief; little; clipped; fleeting; fugitive; momentaneous; momentary; short and sweet; short-dated; short-range; short-run; short-term
close; curtal; sawed-off; sawn-off; shortish; short-snouted; snub; stubby; telescoped; truncate
chunky; dumpy; low-set; squat; squatty; stumpy; half-length; pint-size; pint-sized; runty; short-stalked; squab; squabby; small; little; low
inadequate; poor; insufficient; deficient
unretentive; forgetful; unmindful; mindless
light; scant
shortsighted; unforesightful; myopic; improvident
breakable
brusque; brusk; curt; discourteous
tract; piece of land; piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel
short circuit; contact; tangency
shortstop; position
short-change; victimize; swindle; rook; goldbrick; nobble; diddle; bunco; defraud; scam; mulct; gyp; gip; hornswoggle; con
short-circuit; make; create
abruptly; suddenly; dead
unawares
curtly; shortly

Antonyms for "short":

long; tall; retentive

Related Definitions for "short":

marked by rude or peremptory shortness¹
- the salesgirl was very short with him¹
tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening¹
- shortbread is a short crumbly cookie¹
- a short flaky pie crust¹
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length¹
- short skirts¹
- short hair¹
- the board was a foot short¹
- a short toss¹
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration¹
- a short life¹
- a short flight¹
- a short holiday¹
- a short story¹
- only a few short months¹
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration¹
- the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short¹
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices¹
- a short sale¹
- short in cotton¹
lacking foresight or scope¹
- a short view of the problem¹
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range¹
- a short memory¹
not sufficient to meet a need¹
- money is short¹
- on short rations¹
- food is in short supply¹
- short on experience¹
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so¹
- regularly gives short weight¹
low in stature; not tall¹
- he was short and stocky¹
- short in stature¹
- a short smokestack¹
quickly and without warning¹
in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner¹
- he talked short with everyone¹
at a disadvantage¹
- I was caught short¹
so as to interrupt¹
- She took him up short before he could continue¹
at some point or distance before a goal is reached¹
- he fell short of our expectations¹
clean across¹
- the car's axle snapped short¹
without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold¹
- he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash¹
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base¹
the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed¹
accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference¹
create a short circuit in¹
cheat someone by not returning him enough money¹

Wiktionary Translations for short:

short

adjective

having a small distance between ends or edges
- short → corto
of a person, of comparatively little height
- short → bajo

noun

a short circuit
- short → corto; cortocircuito

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• short	→ corto; breve	↔ kort — van geringe lengte
• short	→ corto; breve	↔ kort — van geringe duur
• short	→ arisco; áspero; brusco; rudo; seco	↔ barsch — (im übertragenen Sinn) bezüglich Sprache, Handlung: (unfreundlich Unterton durchklingen) rau, (allzu) knapp gefasst
• short	→ ahorrador; ahorrativa; ahorradora; ahorrativo; económica; parsimoniosa; parsimonioso; económico	↔ karg — mit dem, was man zu geben bereit ist, zurückhaltend
• short	→ corto; breve	↔ kurz — wenig Zeit benötigend
• short	→ corto; breve	↔ kurz — wenig Länge habend
• short	→ a corto plazo; por poco tiempo	↔ kurzfristig — von kurzer Dauer, für kurze Zeit
• short	→ tierno	↔ mürbe — weich (besonders bei Lebensmitteln)
• short	→ bajo	↔ bref — Petit de taille
• short	→ corto	↔ court — De petite longueur ou qui n’a pas la longueur moyenne des objets du même genre.

Wiktionary Translations for be short:

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• be short	→ carecer; faltar	↔ fehlen — nicht vorhanden sein

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Detailed Translations for be short from English to Spanish

be short form of short:

short adj

short (small; little; tiny; minuscule; diminutive; undersized; inferior; inadequate; low-grade; middling; shortish)

short adj

short (abrupt; blunt; curt; steep)

short (perishing; evanescent; transient; volatile; transitory; temporary; fleeting; passing; momentary; perfunctory; superficial; of short duration; brief; close; casual; current; empty; null; informal; cursory)

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