shortish

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   somewhat short in length, height, or duration

   A shortish man in a tall hat hurried across the square.

Formed from short + the moderating suffix -ish. Here -ish means "somewhat" or "approximately," so shortish deliberately makes the description less exact or less absolute than short.

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