martedì 26 ottobre 2010

Long / Short synonyms

SHORT


fleeting (fugace estemporaneo)


Sense 1:
short (vs. long)
abbreviated, shortened, truncated
brief
clipped
fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
short and sweet(predicate)
short-dated
short-range
short-run, short-term

Sense 2:
short (vs. long)
abbreviated, brief
close
curtal
sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened
shortish
short-range
short-snouted
snub
stubby
telescoped, shortened
truncate, truncated

Sense 3:
short (vs. tall), little
chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
half-length
pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off
short-stalked
squab, squabby

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LONG


Storky (cicogna)

Sense 1:
long (vs. short)
agelong
bimestrial
chronic, continuing
daylong
drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
eight-day
endless, eternal, interminable
hourlong
lifelong, womb-to-tomb
long-acting
long-dated
longish
long-life
longitudinal
long-range
long-run, long-term, semipermanent
longstanding
monthlong
nightlong, all-night, overnight
perennial
time-consuming
weeklong, seven-day
yearlong


Sense 2:
long (vs. short)
elongate, elongated
elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
extendible, extendable
far
lank
long-handled, pole-handled
long-range
long-snouted
long-staple
long-wool, long-wooled
oblong
polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
stretch(prenominal)
storky  curiosity


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