"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

short adjetivo

short + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 688
short story • short time • short film • short period • short distance • short term • short supply • short notice • short hair • short run • ...
verbo + short
Kolokacji: 20
fall short • cut short • stop short • grow shorter • run short • sell short • ...
adverbio + short
Kolokacji: 63
relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
1. far short = daleko krótki far short
2. chronically short = chronicznie krótki chronically short
3. critically short = poważnie krótki critically short
4. notoriously short = notorycznie krótki notoriously short
6. abnormally short = nienormalnie krótki abnormally short
7. mercifully short = szczęśliwie krótki mercifully short
8. ridiculously short = śmiesznie krótki ridiculously short
9. pitifully short = żałośnie krótki pitifully short
10. notably short = szczególnie krótki notably short
11. disappointingly short = niezadowalająco krótki disappointingly short
  • Though John's letters were disappointingly short and uninformative from Abigail's perspective, he pushed her to give lengthy descriptions of all that was happening at home.
  • Green apple, celeriac and Roquefort salad is disappointingly short on celery root.
  • It should be showing these things, but thus far it has fallen disappointingly short.
  • It had a disappointingly short run at Playwrights Horizons.
  • Restitution can often fall disappointingly short of fully undoing a wrong.
  • But the package falls disappointingly short of the Mayor's original goal.
  • All roads lead, after a disappointingly short drive, to shopping malls, fast-food strips and ranch houses laid out in grids.
  • And he was too far away, yet, to be reached by the skull gun, whose infinitesimal bullets had a disappointingly short range.
  • Less Than a Year Left City Council leaders said the plan was disappointingly short on specifics.
  • The troupe's practice schedule - four hours a day, one hour nonstop - leaves her with calluses and disappointingly short fingernails.
12. tragically short = tragicznie krótki tragically short
13. absurdly short = nieprawdopodobnie krótki absurdly short
14. decidedly short = zdecydowanie krótki decidedly short
15. depressingly short = w przygnębiający sposób krótki depressingly short
16. boyishly short = chłopięco krótki boyishly short
17. perennially short = zawsze krótki perennially short
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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