"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
  • You don't have to wear terribly short skirts.
  • I cannot imagine he is terribly short of money.
  • I realize this is terribly short notice, but I hope you can make it.
  • He wasn't much interested in me, but he was terribly short on the right audiences.
  • He sensed she wanted to make a joke of it, but the mental tone fell terribly short.
  • His entry seemed terribly short, considering that he had not recorded anything for many days and there was so much to catch up on.
  • The life spans of humans were terribly short, but for Slayers shorter still.
  • Having been born terribly short and homely with deteriorating eyes no longer mattered.
  • Our experience here has been short, but I would say that this is a young world, having grown up in a terribly short amount of time.
  • Garlic may be available year-round, but the season for young garlic is terribly short, only a few weeks in spring and early summer.
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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