 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abbreviated
adjective
1: (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a
brief bikini" [syn: {brief}]
2: cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a
curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the
result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated
conversation" [syn: {shortened}, {truncated}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abbreviate \Ab*bre"vi*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Abbreviated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Abbreviating}.] [L. abbreviatus, p. p. of
abbreviare; ad + breviare to shorten, fr. brevis short. See
{Abridge}.]
1. To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by
contraction or omission, especially of words written or
spoken.
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting,
another by cutting off. --Bacon.
2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abbreviated \Ab*bre"vi*a'ted\, adjective
Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "abbreviated":
Spartan, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief,
brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious,
compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt,
curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic,
epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed,
pollard, polled, pruned, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved,
sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub,
snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight,
to the point, trimmed, truncated
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