shortenings Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- summaries
- compendiums
- recapitulations
- summarizations
- digests
- encapsulations
- recaps
- simplifications
- resum-s
- conspectuses
- pr-cis
- resumes
- briefs
- summings-up
- capsules
- outlines
- run-throughs
- summae
- compends
- rundowns
- inventories
- r-sum-s
- breviaries
- epitomes
- abstracts
- synopses
- roundups
Weak:
Meaning of shortenings
shortenings
a fat (as butter or lard) used in baking especially to make pastry flaky or crumbly, the dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorter word of the same meaning, a making or becoming short or shorter, an edible fat used to shorten baked goods, the action or process of making or becoming short
shortenings Sentence Examples
- The abbreviation "Mgr."
- is a shortening of the Latin word "Monsignor."
- The shortening "wk" is often used in place of the word "week."
- "Dr." is a shortening of the Latin word "Doctor."
- The shortening "approx."
- means "approximately."
- The shortening "et al."
- is used to indicate "and others" in a citation.
- The shortening "ie."
- or "i.e."
FAQs About the word shortenings
a fat (as butter or lard) used in baking especially to make pastry flaky or crumbly, the dropping of the latter part of a word so as to produce a new and shorte
condensations, curtailments, compendia, abridgments,abbreviations, abridgements, summaries, compendiums, recapitulations, summarizations
expansions, enlargements, amplifications, addenda,supplements,addendums
The abbreviation "Mgr."
is a shortening of the Latin word "Monsignor."
The shortening "wk" is often used in place of the word "week."
"Dr." is a shortening of the Latin word "Doctor."
