Search Result:longer
Overview of noun longer
The noun longer has 1 sense
- 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 long
The adj long has 9 senses
- 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")
- 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")
- long -- (of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows")
- retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
- long -- (holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold")
- long -- ((of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long")
- long -- (involving substantial risk; "long odds")
- farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
- 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
- longer -- (for more time; "can I stay bit longer?")