Usually means: Lacking stamina or breath quickly.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word short-winded:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-winded: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. short-winded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short-winded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short-winded, short-winded: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short-winded: Vocabulary.com
  6. short-winded: Wordnik
  7. short-winded: Wiktionary
  8. short-winded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. short-winded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. short-winded: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. short-winded: Dictionary.com
  12. Short-winded: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. short-winded: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. short-winded: Rhymezone
  15. Short-winded: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. short-winded: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. short-winded: Free Dictionary
  18. short-winded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. short-winded: Dictionary/thesaurus

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. short-winded: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (short-winded)

adjective:  Out of breath, gasping for air; breathing rapidly, or given to becoming short of breath.
adjective:  (figuratively) Hasty, breathless; rushed.
adjective:  Concise and to the point (opposite of long-winded).

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