Wondering how to hyphenate the English word shortest? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.
| adj | short, direct |
| adj | short, abbreviated, shortened, truncated, brief, little, clipped, fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, short-dated, short-range, short-run, short-term, telescoped, shortened, short and sweet
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| adj | short, abbreviated, brief, close, curtal, sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened, shortish, short-range, short-snouted, telescoped, shortened, snub, stubby, truncate, truncated |
| adj | short, chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy, half-length, pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off, sawn-off, squab, squabby, small, little, low |
| adj | inadequate, poor, short, insufficient, deficient |
| adj | short |
| adj | short |
| adj | short, tender |
| adj | light, scant, short, insufficient, deficient |
| adj | short, unstressed, unaccented |
| adj | short, unretentive, forgetful |
| adj | short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic, improvident |
| adj | short, unforbearing, impatient |
| adj | choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short, short-tempered, ill-natured |
| adj | short, direct |
| adj | brusque, brusk, curt, short, discourteous |