short and sweet in English

Forms: more short and sweet [comparative], shorter and sweeter [comparative], most short and sweet [superlative], shortest and sweetest [superlative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-adj|more|shorter and sweeter|sup2=shortest and sweetest}} short and sweet (comparative more short and sweet or shorter and sweeter, superlative most short and sweet or shortest and sweetest)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more short and sweet",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shorter and sweeter",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most short and sweet",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shortest and sweetest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "shorter and sweeter",
        "sup2": "shortest and sweetest"
      },
      "expansion": "short and sweet (comparative more short and sweet or shorter and sweeter, superlative most short and sweet or shortest and sweetest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [
            "Coordinated pairs",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The staff meeting was short and sweet today.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:",
          "text": "Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged."
      ],
      "id": "en-short_and_sweet-en-adj-yca1QlTN",
      "links": [
        [
          "Efficient",
          "efficient"
        ],
        [
          "duration",
          "duration"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "KISS"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short and sweet"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more short and sweet",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shorter and sweeter",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most short and sweet",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shortest and sweetest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "more",
        "2": "shorter and sweeter",
        "sup2": "shortest and sweetest"
      },
      "expansion": "short and sweet (comparative more short and sweet or shorter and sweeter, superlative most short and sweet or shortest and sweetest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "KISS"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The staff meeting was short and sweet today.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “You're a Big Girl Now”, in Blood on the Tracks:",
          "text": "Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Efficiently brief in duration, especially when referring to a task that becomes unpleasant when prolonged."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Efficient",
          "efficient"
        ],
        [
          "duration",
          "duration"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short and sweet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"short and sweet" meaning in English

Adjective