"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 15

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

(1) relatively, comparatively

Kolokacji: 2

(2) far, chronically, critically, notoriously, noticeably, ...

Kolokacji: 17

(3) fairly, slightly, somewhat, reasonably, pretty, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(4) extremely, exceedingly

Kolokacji: 2

(5) well, considerably, substantially

Kolokacji: 3

(6) desperately, incredibly, impossibly, frustratingly

Kolokacji: 4

(7) significantly, woefully, awfully, painfully, terribly, ...

Kolokacji: 9

1. significantly shorter = znacznie krótszy significantly shorter

significantly short

2. woefully short = żałośnie krótki woefully short

3. awfully short = strasznie krótki 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

So the modification was not made, and the distressingly short line was permitted to remain.
Overloaded with period detail and historical commentary, distressingly short of psychological interest or dramatic tension, they failed to engage readers.
Only solid rock and metal, which was in distressingly short supply on Pern, were impervious to the burning score of Thread.
Mr. Shea finds the weekend distressingly short for catching up on 1,001 chores and spending time with his wife, Elizabeth, who works for a pharmaceutical company,and their 9-month-old baby, Caroline, not to mention finding a moment here or there for his own pastimes.
A distressingly short time, she suspected.
But spirited as it was, Mr. Clinton's speech at Rutgers University this week was distressingly short on crucial details.

(8) remarkably, unusually, generally, particularly, exceptionally

Kolokacji: 5

(9) surprisingly, amazingly, astonishingly, startlingly

Kolokacji: 4

(10) increasingly, progressively

Kolokacji: 2

(11) dangerously, severely, perilously

Kolokacji: 3

(12) equally, proportionally, proportionately

Kolokacji: 3

(13) blessedly, damned

Kolokacji: 2

short + preposición

Kolokacji: 12

short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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