 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shortly
adverb
1: for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she
was expected to arrive" [syn: {not long}]
2: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the
book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently";
"we should have news before long" [syn: {soon}, {presently},
{before long}]
3: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me
curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with
everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn:
{curtly}, {short}]
4: in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed
up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly";
"briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: {concisely},
{briefly}, {in brief}, {in short}]
5: at a short distance; "the hem fell shortly below her knees"
[syn: {not far}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shortly \Short"ly\, adverb [AS. sceortlice.]
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
--Chaucer.
I shall grow jealous of you shortly. --Shak.
The armies came shortly in view of each other.
--Clarendon.
2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express
ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "shortly":
abruptly, after a while, anon, aphoristically, bearishly,
before long, betimes, bluffly, bluntly, boorishly, brashly,
briefly, brusquely, by and by, cavalierly, churlishly,
compendiously, concisely, crisply, crustily, curtly, directly,
economically, ere long, fleetingly, flickeringly, flittingly,
for a moment, gruffly, harshly, immediately, in a moment,
in a while, in an instant, in brief, in brief compass,
in due course, in due time, in short, just, laconically,
momentarily, nastily, peremptorily, pithily, pointedly, presently,
pronto, quickly, right, rudely, sententiously, sharply, snippily,
soon, sparely, succinctly, summarily, swiftly, synoptically,
tartly, tersely, testily, transiently
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