adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of abbreviate form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Shortened; made briefer.

   "The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half."

2. 2
   Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
3. 3
   Scanty, as in clothing.

Adjective

1. 1
   (of clothing) very short wordnet
2. 2
   cut short in duration wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

shortabridgedabstractedaphoristicapocopateaposiopestic

Example

More examples

"Put the words in parentheses into abbreviated form."

Related phrases

abbreviated number

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