Roget's Thesaurus

#201. Shortness

Nouns

shortness etc. adj.; brevity; littleness etc. 193; a span. shortening etc. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation; reduction etc. (contraction) 195; epitome etc. (compendium) 596. elision, ellipsis; conciseness etc. (in style) 572. abridger, epitomist, epitomizer.

Verbs

be short etc. adj.; render short etc. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress etc. (contract) 195; epitomize etc. 596. retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten (in drawing).

Adjectives

short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate; retrousse; stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little etc. 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise etc. 572; summary.

Adverbs

shortly etc. adj.; in short etc. (concisely) 572.