Shortness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHORTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being short
• the quality of being relatively small in height or length
• the quality of lasting a small amount of time
• the quality of being relatively small in extent
• the state of not having enough of something; lack
• the quality of being abrupt or rude in speech
• The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.
• the property of being of short spatial extent
• the condition of being short of something
• the property of being truncated or short
• the property of being of short temporal extent
• the property of being shorter than average stature
• an abrupt discourteous manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having little length; not tall or high; low

Words related to SHORTNESS

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Words that contain SHORTNESS

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How to use SHORTNESS in a sentence

• A great part of these arrangements was prevented by the shortness of time and the sudden approach and charge of the enemy.
• She has probably suffered for a year or more, first lassitude, then shortness of breath, and pretty often actual pain.
• In view of the shortness of Winter holidays, it seems a pity that more enthusiasts do not profit by the chance of practising which the Jungfrau Joch Railway offers in Summer time.
• But nevertheless nature herself has placed in our ears a power of judging of all superfluous length and all undue shortness in sounds, as much as of grave and acute syllables.
• For the first time in my life I congratulated myself upon the shortness and meanness of my name.
• This evil has proceeded from the narrowness and shortness of the way, through which the procession has lately passed.
• The guards stand behind, and, owing to the shortness of the chariot, must have experienced some difficulty in keeping their places.
• Astonishing, considering the shortness of the notice and what servants are.
• Tazewell from the bar, might be found in the shortness of the lives of his progenitors.
• Compare then with this poverty of result, and shortness of duration, the daily and perpetual urgency of other needs of our existence.
• Nor have the streams, from the shortness of their course, time to acquire that body of water necessary to confer upon them much majesty.
• I stayed two days at Ferrara, and was much pleased with the Count Mosti, and the little the shortness of the time permitted me to see of his family.
• This thought of the shortness of life gives me courage, and helps me to put up with the weariness of the journey.
• The shortness in the supply, as compared with the demand for labour, has been accentuated by it.
• The presence of a Boer escort and the shortness of the time allowed for the delivery of the messages prevented any lengthy conversation.
• I fear she has pain in the chest, and I sometimes catch a shortness in her breathing, when she has moved at all quickly.
• The shortness of breath is aggravated by the slightest exertion.
• Shortness of distance, combined with facility of transport, must soon tap this trade or divert it into the highways of Tonquin.
• The Kachin women are as stunted as the Japanese, and are disfigured with the same disproportionate shortness of legs.
• Thus much may serve to satisfy your curiosity, it being as much as the shortness of time and my business would permit me to say.
• She had realized, newly, the shortness of the time.
• The shortness of her steamer skirt made it possible for Lord Redgrave and Mrs.
• Their shortness does not prevent them from being tiresome.
• First of all I would have them seriously think on the Shortness of their Time.
• The Shortness and Uncertainty of our Time here, makes such a kind of Hope unreasonable and absurd.
• One condition which presses heavily on many women is the shortness of the holidays.
• The shortness of the dress made the curious raw-hide moccasins only the more prominent, and the whole make-up of the party was a curious sight.
• His usual look was one of calm placid thought, an expression which was increased in some degree by spectacles, which he wore on account of his shortness of sight.
• What I have written may satisfy your curiosity, and is as much as the shortness of the time and my business will admit.
• Some centuries ago, driven out by feuds or shortness of food, they left their isles of reef and palm, and found their way to Ao-tea-roa, as they called New Zealand.
• I noticed then the abnormal shortness of their legs, and their lank, clumsy feet.

Similar words containing SHORTNES without suffix s

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