Usually means: Less in length or height.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word shorter:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. shorter: Merriam-Webster
  2. shorter: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shorter: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shorter, shorter: Wordnik
  5. shorter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Shorter, shorter: Wiktionary
  7. Shorter: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. shorter: Dictionary.com
  9. shorter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shorter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Shorter: Rhymezone
  12. shorter: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Shorter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shorter: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Shorter: Legal dictionary
  3. Shorter: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shorter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shorter: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shorter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shorter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shorter)

▸ noun:  (colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
▸ noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A town in Macon County, Alabama, United States.

Similar:
longer, lengthy, shortened, narrower, briefer, smaller, quicker, slighter, fuller, slower, more...

Opposite:
longer, taller, lengthier, extended, elongated

Types:
paper, electronic, audio, video, online, more...

Phrases:
shorter term, shorter catechism, Wayne Shorter, shorter lived, Frank Shorter, more...

Adjectives:
none, late, dear, old, saxophonist, much, longer, olympic, beautiful, courtesy, proportional



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Similar:
longer, lengthy, shortened, narrower, briefer, smaller, quicker, slighter, fuller, slower, more...

Opposite:
longer, taller, lengthier, extended, elongated

Types:
paper, electronic, audio, video, online, more...

Phrases:
shorter term, shorter catechism, Wayne Shorter, shorter lived, Frank Shorter, shorter wayne, Jim Shorter, Clinton Shorter, Wayne Shorter discography, Westminster Shorter Catechism, Rule of the shorter term, more...

Adjectives:
none, late, dear, old, saxophonist, much, longer, olympic, beautiful, courtesy, proportional



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