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longaeval

longaeval is the alternative form of longeval.

Meaning of longeval

Adjective

longeval (comparative more longeval, superlative most longeval)

  1. (archaic, rare) Long-lived
    • If under their present low circumstances of birth and breeding, and in so short a term of life as is now allotted to them, they so far exceed all beasts, and equal many men; what prodigies may we not conceive of those, who were nati melioribus annis, those primitive, longeval, and antediluvian...a. 1719 (date written), Martinus Scriblerus [pseudonym; Alexander Pope; Thomas Parnell], “An Essay of the Learned Martinus Scriblerus, Concerning the Origin of Sciences”, in Thomas Sheridan, John...
    Synonyms:
    longevous

Forms of longaeval

comparativemore longaeval
superlativemost longaeval

Questions about longaeval

What is longaeval the alternative form of?
Longaeval is the alternative form of longeval.

Words near longaeval in the dictionary

  1. long.
  2. longa
  3. Longacre
  4. Longacres
  5. longae
  6. longaeval
  7. longaevous
  8. longage
  9. longages
  10. longan
  11. Longanapan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: longaeval (page history and authors); longeval (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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