Grep of noun longer
longer
Overview of noun longer
The noun longer has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. longer, thirster, yearner -- (a person with a strong desire for something "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge")
Overview of adj longer
The adj longer has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) longer, longest -- (having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several; "the longer (or long) edge of the door"; "the hypotenuse is the longest (or long) side of a right triangle")
Overview of adj long
The adj long has 10 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (118) long -- (primarily temporal sense being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; ; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long")
2. (107) long -- (primarily spatial sense of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long")
3. (2) long -- (of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows")
4. long -- ((finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold")
5. long -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot'))
6. long -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration)
7. long -- (involving substantial risk; "long odds")
8. long, tenacious -- ((of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory")
9. farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
10. long -- (having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply")
Overview of adv longer
The adv longer has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (17) longer -- (for more time; "can I stay bit longer?")
Antonyms of adj longer
1 sense of longer
Sense 1
longer, longest
INDIRECT (VIA long) -> short
Antonyms of adj long
10 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, shortened, truncated
=> brief, little
=> clipped
=> fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
=> short-dated
=> short-range
=> short-run, short-term
=> telescoped, shortened
=> short and sweet(prenominal)
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, brief
=> close
=> curtal
=> sawed-off, shortened
=> shortish
=> short-range
=> short-snouted
=> telescoped, shortened
=> snub
=> stubby
=> truncate, truncated
Sense 3
long
INDIRECT (VIA tall) -> short
Sense 4
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
Sense 5
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
Sense 6
long
INDIRECT (VIA stressed) -> unstressed, unaccented
Sense 7
long
INDIRECT (VIA unsound) -> sound
Sense 8
long, tenacious
INDIRECT (VIA retentive) -> unretentive, forgetful
Sense 9
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted
INDIRECT (VIA provident) -> improvident
Sense 10
long
INDIRECT (VIA abundant) -> scarce
Similarity of adj longer
1 sense of longer
Sense 1
longer, longest
=> long (vs. short)
Similarity of adj long
10 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
=> agelong
=> bimestrial
=> daylong
=> drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
=> durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
=> endless, eternal, interminable
=> hourlong
=> lifelong, womb-to-tomb
=> long-acting
=> long-dated
=> longish
=> longitudinal
=> long-range
=> long-run, long-term, semipermanent
=> longstanding
=> monthlong
=> nightlong, overnight
=> perennial
=> weeklong
=> yearlong
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
=> elongate, elongated
=> elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
=> extendible, extendable
=> far
=> in length(prenominal)
=> lank
=> long-distance
=> longer, longest
=> long-handled
=> long-range
=> long-snouted
=> long-staple
=> oblong
=> polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
=> stretch(postnominal)
=> long-wool, long-wooled
Sense 3
long
=> tall (vs. short)
Sense 4
long (vs. short)
Sense 5
long (vs. short)
Sense 6
long
=> stressed (vs. unstressed)
Sense 7
long
=> unsound (vs. sound)
Sense 8
long, tenacious
=> retentive (vs. unretentive)
Sense 9
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted
=> provident (vs. improvident)
Sense 10
long
=> abundant (vs. scarce)
Attributes of adj longer
Attributes of adj long
2 of 10 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
=> duration, length
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
=> length
Familiarity of adj longer
longer used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Familiarity of adj long
long used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 10)
Grep of adj longer
longer
Grep of adj long
agelong
daylong
headlong
hourlong
lifelong
livelong
long
long-acting
long-ago
long-dated
long-distance
long-faced
long-familiar
long-haired
long-handled
long-headed
long-lasting
long-legged
long-lived
long-play
long-playing
long-range
long-run
long-shanked
long-snouted
long-staple
long-suffering
long-term
long-wearing
long-winded
long-wool
long-wooled
longanimous
longed-for
longer
longest
longhand
longish
longitudinal
longsighted
longstanding
longtime
monthlong
nightlong
oblong
sidelong
weeklong
yearlong
Overview of noun longer
The noun longer has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. longer, thirster, yearner -- (a person with a strong desire for something "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge")
Overview of adj longer
The adj longer has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) longer, longest -- (having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several; "the longer (or long) edge of the door"; "the hypotenuse is the longest (or long) side of a right triangle")
Overview of adj long
The adj long has 10 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (118) long -- (primarily temporal sense being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; ; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long")
2. (107) long -- (primarily spatial sense of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long")
3. (2) long -- (of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows")
4. long -- ((finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold")
5. long -- ((phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot'))
6. long -- ((prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration)
7. long -- (involving substantial risk; "long odds")
8. long, tenacious -- ((of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory")
9. farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
10. long -- (having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply")
Overview of adv longer
The adv longer has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (17) longer -- (for more time; "can I stay bit longer?")
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