Crossword-Solution: SHORT 5 letters, 321 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Short	superl.	Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
Short	superl.	Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
Short	superl.	Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
Short	superl.	Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
Short	superl.	Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
Short	superl.	Not distant in time; near at hand.
Short	superl.	Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Short	superl.	Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Short	superl.	Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
Short	superl.	Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
Short	superl.	Brittle.
Short	superl.	Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Short	adv.	Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
Short	n.	A summary account.
Short	n.	The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
Short	n.	Short, inferior hemp.
Short	n.	Breeches; shortclothes.
Short	n.	A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
Short	adv.	In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
Short	v. t.	To shorten.
Short	v. i.	To fail; to decrease.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SHORT	anagram	HORST, ORTHS, ROTHS, STROH, THORS, TROHS

We have 321 clues for the answer “SHORT”

Clue	Answers
"Father of the Bride" actor	1 answer
"Vertically challenged"	1 answer
"___ Skirt/Long Jacket" (2001 Cake song)	1 answer
A little underfunded	1 answer
ACTING near at hand	1 answer
Actor Martin who co-stars with Martin	1 answer
Adjective for an elf	1 answer
Army general relieved of command.	1 answer
BELOW the degree of	1 answer
Bad way to come up	1 answer
Brief in duration	1 answer
Certain movie	1 answer
Circuit mishap	1 answer
Comedian Martin of SCTV	1 answer
Current issue?	1 answer
Dewey from Missouri.	1 answer
Electrician's headache	1 answer
Fall __ (miss one's goal)	1 answer
Film that's not very long	1 answer
Financially shy	1 answer
Former U. S. lieutenant general.	1 answer
H. S. T.'s late press secretary.	1 answer
Hand or ribs	1 answer
Hardly patient	1 answer
Height-challenged	1 answer
Height-impaired	1 answer
In insufficient supply	1 answer
In need of a few bucks	1 answer
In need of a loan	1 answer
In need of dough	1 answer
In need of money	1 answer
Infielder: Colloq.	1 answer
Kind of cake or cut	1 answer
Kind of cut or cake	1 answer
Lacking a quorum	1 answer
Lacking in stature	1 answer
Lacking sufficient funds	1 answer
Less likely to be boring	1 answer
Like Munchkinland residents	1 answer
Like Randy Newman's "People"	1 answer
Like a hamster's tail	1 answer
Like hair in a pixie cut	1 answer
Like hamsters' tails	1 answer
Like someone nicknamed "Sprout"	1 answer
Like the unlucky Straw Bundled, as	1 answer
Like the unlucky straw	1 answer
Low on cash	1 answer
Low on dough	1 answer
Low on funds	1 answer
Low on money	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SHORT (5)

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln 1979

Michael should have used it also, but Wendy would have a baby, and he was the littlest, and you know what women are, and the short and long of it is that he was hung up in a basket.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Short it seemed to Hiawatha, Though they journeyed very slowly, Though his pace he checked and slackened To the steps of Laughing Water.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep: Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare Short intermission bought with double smart.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Quotes with SHORT (3)

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda Love: Ten Poems

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Santosh Kalwar Quote Me Everyday

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.

Chris Rock

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 240 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).