Scrabble & Words with friends points
- short is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
- short is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
- short is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of short
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need (adjective)
Examples
- money is short
- on short rations
- food is in short supply
- short on experience
Synonyms
- inadequate
- jejune
- poor
- cheat someone by not returning him enough money (verb)
Synonyms
- short-change
- at a disadvantage (adverb)
Examples
- I was caught short
Synonyms
- unawares
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base (noun)
Synonyms
- shortstop
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness (adjective)
Examples
- the salesgirl was very short with him
Synonyms
- brusk
- brusque
- curt
- low in stature; not tall (adjective)
Examples
- he was short and stocky
- short in stature
- a short smokestack
Synonyms
- little
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference (noun)
Synonyms
- short circuit
- create a short circuit in (verb)
Synonyms
- short-circuit
- quickly and without warning (adverb)
Synonyms
- abruptly
- dead
- suddenly
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so (adjective)
Examples
- regularly gives short weight
Synonyms
- light
- scant
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range (adjective)
Examples
- a short memory
Synonyms
- forgetful
- unretentive
- lacking foresight or scope (adjective)
Examples
- a short view of the problem
- shortsighted policies
- shortsighted critics derided the plan
Synonyms
- myopic
- shortsighted
- unforesightful
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner (adverb)
Examples
- he talked short with everyone
- he said shortly that he didn't like it
Synonyms
- curtly
- shortly
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices (adjective)
Examples
- a short sale
- short in cotton
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration (adjective)
Examples
- the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length (adjective)
Examples
- short skirts
- short hair
- the board was a foot short
- a short toss
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration (adjective)
Examples
- a short life
- a short flight
- a short holiday
- a short story
- only a few short months
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening (adjective)
Examples
- shortbread is a short crumbly cookie
- a short flaky pie crust
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed (noun)
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold (adverb)
Examples
- he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash
See definition of short in Merriam Webster