short
- adjective
- /ʃɔrt/
- She realized that her short thinking was affecting her decisions about the future.
- short on memory
- short-sighted
What what people in power understand is that human beings have short fucking memories.
- What what people in power understand is that human beings have short fucking memories.
- Yep, it might be some short term thinking for them.
- And it's one of complete fairness, equal retribution, and short memory.
- And, and, and, and we're very short in, in understanding.
- And I, I don't have to think short, short term at all.
- I don't know, I I short attention span.
- It's just tactics and it's it's short sight and it's hooking up instead of marrying.
- My my memories, me, me, me, short term memories fucking shot the bit.
- At least we've allowed our children to grow up with a sense of being very short termist.
Examples
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You got a short memory.
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Oh, you have a short memory, Travis.
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The public has a short memory.
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You have to take risks and get out of your comfort zone because life is short.
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I am a scientist with a short attention span.
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My gut feeling is not that we have tremendously short memories and money talks.
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Well, short-term memory loss is a side effect of sleep deprivation, so it should come back to you.
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Life's short, you know.
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Many students struggle with a short memory for details during exams.
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He recognized his short attention span as a barrier to understanding complex topics.
Synonyms
A person who often cannot remember things
Making decisions without thinking about the future
Not thinking about future problems when making plans or decisions
Not planning ahead or thinking about the future
Not planning for problems that will happen in the future
Someone who cannot remember past events
Not good at remembering things
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Quick and pleasant without extra detail, often about a talk or message
- Informal
To end up by chance with an unpleasant task or in a worse position
Compounds
- Specialized
Selling a house for less than the amount owed on the mortgage with the bank's agreement
- Specialized
An accidental electrical connection that lets electricity flow the wrong way and can cause damage or fire
- Specialized
Selling shares you do not own to buy them back later at a lower price to make a profit
- Specialized
A radio wave that travels long distances and carries international broadcasts
- Specialized
To buy back shares you sold expecting their price to fall to close that position
- Specialized
A section of beef behind the ribs used to make porterhouse and T-bone steaks
- Specialized
A unit of weight used in the United States equal to 2,000 pounds, about 907 kilograms
- Specialized
In chess, moving the king two squares toward the kingside rook and placing that rook next to the king
- Specialized
A piece of beef from near the shoulder with short bones and meat for slow cooking
- Specialized
A bone about as long as it is wide and thick, found in the wrist and ankle
- Jargon
To move the king two squares toward its rook and put that rook beside the king
- Jargon
A chess move where the king moves two squares toward the kingside rook and that rook moves beside the king
- Specialized
An account with a broker that lets you sell stocks you do not own to buy back for less
- Specialized
A small blood vessel that carries blood from the artery near the spleen to the outer curve of the stomach
- Specialized
An American measure of weight equal to 100 pounds, about 45 kilograms
A vein that carries blood from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee
- Archaic
A card game for four people in two teams where you win points by taking tricks, played to five points
A small North American bird with a short bill that lives in wet meadows
- Specialized
A large pine tree with short needles that grows in the southern United States
- Specialized
A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops
- Specialized
An acidic liquid that stops film or paper from developing before fixing
- Specialized
A wild flower like the fragrant orchid with smaller flowers, shorter stems, and very short spurs
- Specialized
A kind of cotton with short fibers that people use to make coarse cloth
How Forgetful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Short in 'short memory' comes from the sense of being brief or not long, so a short memory is one that does not hold things for long.