"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 15

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

(1) relatively, comparatively

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 17

Kolokacji: 7

(4) extremely, exceedingly

Kolokacji: 2

(5) well, considerably, substantially

Kolokacji: 3

Kolokacji: 4

Kolokacji: 9

1. significantly shorter = znacznie krótszy significantly shorter

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

At first he had been able to work only in painfully short bursts - fifteen minutes, maybe half an hour if the story really demanded it of him.
The game was perceived as "painfully short" and "linear", but "never boring".
But with new information in painfully short supply today, for many there was little to do but vent emotions.
After all, their affair had been a painfully short one, though it was wonderful while it lasted.
He was a nail-biter, she thought, staring with dull fascination at his ragged, painfully short fingernails.
After all, the life span of drama in the Bronx these days is painfully short.
He'd shorn his wiry ginger-and-gray mop painfully short while he'd been gone.
No, not long, a painfully short time to leave a beloved wife.
Raymond drops me off with Paul, a thick-armed blond guy who is, compared with Roberta, painfully short of people skills.