This is shorthand writing, by means of which we can keep up with the talker.
Source: tatoeba (56171)
Shorthand
//ˈʃɔːthænd//
Synonyms for "shorthand" (68 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (34)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սղագրություն noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бързопис noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- стеногра́фия noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- стенографирам verb (To write in shorthand)
Czech
1 entries- těsnopis noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Dutch
1 entries- beknotte vorm noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Esperanto
1 entries- stenografio noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Estonian
1 entries- kiirkiri noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Finnish
1 entries- pikakirjoitus noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
French
1 entries- sténographie noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Georgian
1 entries- სტენოგრაფია noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
German
4 entries- Kurzschrift noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- Stenografie noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- Stenogramm noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- Stenographie noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Greek
3 entries- στενογραφία noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- συντομογραφία noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- ταχυγραφία noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyorsírás noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Icelandic
1 entries- stytting noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
Irish
2 entries- gearrscríbhneoireacht noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- gearrscríobh noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Italian
1 entries- stenografia noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Polish
3 entries- skrót noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- stenografia noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- stenografować verb (To write in shorthand)
Portuguese
3 entries- estenografia noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- resumo noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- taquigrafia noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Russian
4 entries- ско́ропись noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- ско́ропись noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- стеногра́фия noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- усло́вное обозначе́ние noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- stenografija noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Slovak
1 entries- rýchlopis noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Spanish
3 entries- abreviatura noun (brief or shortened way of saying or doing something)
- estenografía noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
- taquigrafía noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Swedish
1 entries- stenografi noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Thai
1 entries- ชวเลข noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Turkish
1 entries- stenografi noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Welsh
1 entries- llaw-fer noun (rough and rapid method of writing)
Sample sentences
33 total sentences available.
This is shorthand.
Source: tatoeba (56172)
That girl couldn't take things down in longhand, let alone shorthand.
Source: tatoeba (58066)
I have decided to learn shorthand.
Source: tatoeba (259248)
Showing 4 of 33 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.