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What is the adjective for shortening?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs short and shorten which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

short
  1. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
  2. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
  3. Having little duration; opposite of long.
  4. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
  5. (fielder) that is relatively close to the batsman.
  6. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
  7. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
  8. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust.)
  9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
  10. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
  11. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
  12. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
  13. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
  14. Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
  15. Synonyms:
      16. little, small, smaller, tiny, diminutive, mini, petite, miniature, minuscule, minute, lilliputian, stubby, dumpy, miniaturised, miniaturized, pocket, fubsy, squatty, stocky, dwarfish, pintsized, undersized, stunted, dwarf, elfin, midget, low, slight, teeny, pintsize, shallow, wee, runty, smallish, squat, low-lying, low-slung, not long, not tall, pint-sized, pocket-sized, sawed-off, teeny-weeny, close to the ground, fun size, knee high to a gnat, knee high to a grasshopper, knee-high to a grasshopper, bantam, pygmy … more
  16. Examples:
      17. “This sport allows tall and short players alike to participate in.”
      “She quickly ran downstairs to her desk and wrote a short reply, before running back upstairs.”
      “It is true that our provisions are short, but we have received news that the inhabitants of Canada are all friendly.”
shortsome
  1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Marked, or characterised by shortness; (by extension) amusing; enjoyable
shortlegged
  1. Having short legs, particularly in proportion to one's body,
  2. Examples:
      3. “However, small, deep-bodied, shortlegged cattle have been known in Ireland since Celtic times.”
shortward
  1. Near, or oriented towards the short part of a structure
shortish
  1. Somewhat short; moderately short.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Her down-to-earth successor is 58, shortish, very proper and handsome in that don't care-a-fig British way.”
      “He was in modern dress, smart-casual in beige-coloured clothes, with white shortish hair.”
      “I think she would look amazing in a white leather shortish dress with beading.”
shorter
  1. comparative form of short: more short.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. reduced, curtailed, diminished, lessened, briefer, less, lower, more concise, concise, summarized, abridged, truncated, edited, summarised, condensed, brief, compressed, summary, shortened, thumbnail, synoptic, contracted, cut, potted, abbreviated, clipped, abstracted, trimmed, shrunk, pruned, cropped, cut short, cut down, pared down, succinct, compact, compendious, outlined, edited down, synopsized, bowdlerized, precised, outline, digest, skeleton, essential, expurgated, bowdlerised, decreased, simplified … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment had shorter survival times overall.”
shorte
  1. Archaic spelling of short.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.”
shortenable
  1. That may be shortened.
shortest
  1. superlative form of short: most short; Least in stature, length or height.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. short, direct, quickest, straight, express, linear, beeline, continuous, uninterrupted, undeviating, contiguous, unswerving, nonstop, bee-line, non-stop, straight line, straight through, straight-through, through, unbroken, straightforward, straight ahead, horizontal, not crooked, right, even, true, straightaway, rectilinear, unbent, uncurving, uncurled, unbending, lineal, as straight as an arrow, like an arrow, in a line, lowest, smallest, squattest, squattiest, stumpiest, shallowest, stubbiest, least, tiniest, most petite, most diminutive, most miniature, most minuscule … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The radius vector is shortest when the planet is at perihelion and longest at aphelion.”
      “The nonschizophrenic patients had the shortest and least detailed dreams and the highest degree of reality testing.”
      “The gynaecology waiting lists are some of the shortest waiting lists at the hospital.”
shorted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of short
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shortchanged, cheated, conned, defrauded, fleeced, hustled, swindled, deceived, duped, misled, chiseled, chiselled, finagled, scammed, choused, stiffed, bamboozled, plucked, pluckt, tricked, mulcted, screwed, cozened, hosed, sandbagged, diddled, gaffed, bled, flimflammed, shafted, fiddled, suckered, victimised, victimized, bilked, euchred, ripped off, shook down, shaken down, took for a ride, taken for a ride … more
shorting
  1. present participle of short
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shortchanging, cheating, conning, defrauding, fleecing, hustling, swindling, deceiving, duping, misleading, chiseling, chiselling, finagling, scamming, chousing, stiffing, bamboozling, plucking, tricking, mulcting, screwing, cozening, hosing, sandbagging, diddling, gaffing, bleeding, flimflamming, shafting, fiddling, suckering, victimising, victimizing, bilking, euchring, ripping off, shaking down, taking for a ride … more
shortened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shorten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cut, reduced, abbreviated, trimmed, condensed, curtailed, truncated, pruned, clipped, clipt, contracted, cropped, docked, decreased, lessened, diminished, shrank, shrunk, shrunken, compressed, snipped, lopped, lopt, chopped, bobbed, downsized, slashed, elided, syncopated, telescoped, dwindled, minimised, minimized, retrenched, excerpted, cut back, cut down, cut short, boiled down, pared down, made shorter, got shorter, gotten shorter, took up, taken up, cut to the bone, turned up, abridged, summarized, abstracted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It's claimed he used the word as a shortened version of the word association.”
shortening
  1. present participle of shorten
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cutting, reducing, abbreviating, trimming, condensing, curtailing, truncating, pruning, clipping, contracting, cropping, docking, decreasing, lessening, diminishing, shrinking, compressing, snipping, lopping, chopping, bobbing, downsizing, slashing, eliding, syncopating, telescoping, dwindling, minimising, minimizing, retrenching, excerpting, cutting back, cutting down, cutting short, boiling down, paring down, making shorter, getting shorter, taking up, cutting to the bone, turning up, abridging, summarizing, abstracting, summarising, synopsizing, epitomizing, digesting, paring, epitomising … more
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