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shortest-distance

shortest-distance is the superlative form of short-distance.

Meaning of short-distance

Adjective

short-distance (comparative shorter-distance, superlative shortest-distance)

  1. Relating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.
    • I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
    Antonyms:
    long-distance

Questions about shortest-distance

What is shortest-distance the superlative form of?
Shortest-distance is the superlative form of short-distance.

Words near shortest-distance in the dictionary

  1. shortest
  2. shortest haul
  3. shortest remaining time
  4. shortest remaining times
  5. shortest-acting
  6. shortest-distance
  7. shortest-grain
  8. shortest-grained
  9. shortest-haired
  10. shortest-haul
  11. shortest-lived

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