"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
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
  • "You're the one who looks wonderful," Whitney said, admiring Emily's tight brown hair cut fashionably short and threaded with a ribbon.
  • Even in this, Tyber remained unorthodox, choosing not to wear his hair in the fashionably short, buzz-cut style favored among men today.
  • Zip self into fashionably short pink number from Cousin Buddy's wedding.
  • But in this season of above-the-knee chic, it is not frivolous to have the hemline of an old coat chopped fashionably short.
  • In one, a young woman in a tight blue dress with a fashionably short skirt is leaping down the steps at the General Post Office.
  • It is fashionably short - a sort of 1920's flapper cut - but thick and lustrous, an elegant crown for her stern patrician bearing.
  • Elizabeth is 22, 'tallish for a girl, slender', with fashionably short hair and wears tortoise shell glasses.
  • Caradoc had dark brown hair cut fashionably short.
  • Veronica Sims-Ronnie, my very best friend-had talked me into buying a fashionably short navy skirt.
  • She had light brown hair, almost a shade of blonde, cut 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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