Thesaurus:come short
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to be worse than
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- come short
- fall short (idiomatic)
- play second fiddle (idiomatic)
- suck (chiefly US, slang)
- sux0r (Internet slang)
- take a back seat (idiomatic)
- undermatch
- want [⇒ thesaurus]
Antonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- be unequal [⇒ thesaurus]
Further reading
[edit]- “34. inferiority” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “fall short” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- “want” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.