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short-sleeved

short-sleeved adjective: having sleeves that are not long enough to reach the elbows.

Adjective

short-sleeved (not comparable)

  1. Having sleeves that are not long enough to reach the elbows.
    • That day at Yeatman, however, she wore a prim short-sleeved, knee-length blue dress and a pair of tan patent leather flats I'd never seen before.2021, Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, page 20

Antonyms of short-sleeved

Forms of short-sleeved

alternative formshortsleeved
alternative formshort-sleeve

Origin of short-sleeved

From short + sleeved.

Questions about short-sleeved

What does short-sleeved mean?
Short-sleeved means having sleeves that are not long enough to reach the elbows.
What part of speech is short-sleeved?
Short-sleeved is an adjective.

Words near short-sleeved in the dictionary

  1. short-sighted
  2. short-sightedly
  3. short-sightedness
  4. short-sleeper
  5. short-sleepers
  6. short-sleeved
  7. short-sold
  8. short-spoken
  9. short-staff
  10. short-staffed
  11. short-staffing

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