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faster-acting

faster-acting is the comparative form of fast-acting.

Meaning of fast-acting

Adjective

fast-acting (comparative faster-acting or more fast-acting, superlative fastest-acting or most fast-acting)

  1. Taking effect quickly.
    • a fast-acting analgesic

Questions about faster-acting

What is faster-acting the comparative form of?
Faster-acting is the comparative form of fast-acting.

Words near faster-acting in the dictionary

  1. fastens up
  2. faster
  3. faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
  4. faster than light
  5. faster than Minute Rice
  6. faster-acting
  7. faster-flowing
  8. faster-growing
  9. faster-moving
  10. faster-paced
  11. faster-than-light

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faster-acting (page history and authors); fast-acting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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