短みじかい
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. short
If the distance is this short, you will almost certainly not fail.
2. brief
It was a brief reply, but I don't think he was lying.
Kanji used
short
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
quick-tempered; having little patience; impatient
not having long to live
quick-tempered; impatient
Examples (86 in total)
Human life is short.
There was a short silence.
I was dissatisfied with my short hair.
Your skirt is too short.
The reply was short but sharp.
In a word, life is short.
The life span of a butterfly is short.
An insect's life is short, you know.
I must have it shortened.
Her hair is very short.
You look nice with your hair short.
A lot happened in a short time.
Why is the hem so short?
The woman's hair is quite short.
Even I, who have only known them for a short time, can tell.
I like short poems.
Art is long, life is short.
Human life is short and fleeting.
He gave a short talk.
I contributed a short essay to a magazine.
The older you get, the shorter a year feels.
His speech was very short.
February is the shortest month.
Mozart's life was very short.
The lunar month is shorter than the calendar month.
The days have been getting shorter lately.
You've cut my hair too short.
He sent me a brief letter.
Although the words are short, one can feel a firm sense of determination.
In the summer, days are long and nights are short.
The days are getting shorter.
A month is too little time.
Dogs have shorter lifespans than humans.
Ten miles is not a short distance.
The hair, cut short, no longer flutters.
Today's clothes are terribly short in length.
The interval is getting shorter.
I wanted my hair cut short.
His speech was brief and to the point.
The vacuum cleaner's cord is short, so it's hard to use.
That dog has a short tail.
His reply was short and to the point.
I should've chosen a shorter username.
If the distance is this short, you will almost certainly not fail.
She looks cute with her hair short.
A girl with long hair and a girl with short hair are sitting side by side.
This story is short enough to read in one lesson.
If you so much as shorten your skirt, all hell breaks loose.
The days grow shorter as winter approaches.
Make this sentence a little shorter.
And just like that, their short life came to an end.
This dog has a long body and short legs.
This drama consists of just two short scenes.
Rabbits have long ears and short tails.
The wind from the river faintly swayed the short bangs.
Life is at best very short.
He resumed his work after a short break.
Winters in the north are long, but summers are short.
Ten years is a short time when we look back at it.
They were not given the luxury of ascertaining the truth in a short time.
The concert was short, but it was really good.
Violet light has a shorter wavelength than red light.
He cannot have gone so far in such a short time.
When summer is over, the days grow shorter and shorter.
It must be said that two and a half hours is rather short.
It was a brief reply, but I don't think he was lying.
They came one after another in a relatively short time.
The period of hot weather is very short here.
The torso is thick, and the legs are shorter than those of other horses.
Life is too long to do nothing, but too short to do something.
"Oh well," she said, running her fingers through her short hair.
Life being very short, you ought not to waste your time.
With the coming of winter, days are getting shorter.
Tom, which do you prefer, girls with long hair or girls with short hair?
Jane had her hair cut short before the athletic meet.
The barber has cut your hair very short.
The teacher wrote a short comment on each student's paper.
The time spent to see the monument is short.
I let out a short puff of breath and push myself up out of the chair.
He traced his shortened hair with his fingertips and then sighed deeply.
The baby looked at me, reached out its little arms and touched my chest.
I think my stay next summer will be shorter than this year's.
In half a month, her short hair had grown out a little.
He has two pencils. One is long and the other one is short.
A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs.
Apparently my performance earlier and our brief conversation made him take a liking to me.