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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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