| Shorthand (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Phonography. Thesaurus Entries Speedwriting, arrowhead, autograph, autographic, brachygraphy, calligraphic, character, chirographic, contraction, cuneiform, cursive, demotic character, determinative, engrossed, flowing, grammalogue, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, holograph, holographic, ideogram, ideograph, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, kana, katakana, logogram, logograph, longhand, manuscript, ogham, on paper, penciled, penned, phonetic, phonetic symbol, phonography, pictogram, pictograph, printed, radical, rune, running, scriptorial, scriptural, stenographic, stenography, stylographic, tachygraphic, tachygraphy, wedge, word letter, written |