"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
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
2. woefully short = żałośnie krótki woefully short
3. awfully short = strasznie krótki awfully short
  • With any luck they arrived early, because his outing was awfully short.
  • "Don't you think this is awfully short notice, since you want me to drive?"
  • Awfully short notice, she thought, but that's the way they were living these days.
  • From what I hear the department is awfully short of funds.
  • A week isn't a long honeymoon and it's an awfully short married life.
  • They could be awfully short of cars if there is a strike.
  • Three weeks is an awfully short time for these three countries.
  • Also we seem to be awfully short of knives.
  • Her instinct was to like the little creature-but they were running awfully short of meat.
  • September 8 The woman says it's Tuesday, and we're running awfully short.
4. terribly short = szalenie krótki terribly short
5. painfully short = nieznośnie krótki painfully short
6. brutally short = brutalnie krótki brutally short
7. fashionably short = modnie krótki fashionably short
8. embarrassingly short = w sposób żenujący krótki embarrassingly short
9. distressingly short = niepokojąco krótki distressingly short
(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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