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longer-acting

longer-acting is the comparative form of long-acting.

Meaning of long-acting

Adjective

long-acting (comparative longer-acting, superlative longest-acting)

  1. Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the long term.
    • I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194
    Antonyms:
    short-acting

Questions about longer-acting

What is longer-acting the comparative form of?
Longer-acting is the comparative form of long-acting.

Words near longer-acting in the dictionary

  1. Longenecker
  2. Longeneckers
  3. longer
  4. longer ago
  5. longer grain
  6. longer-acting
  7. longer-distance
  8. longer-felt
  9. longer-furred
  10. longer-grain
  11. longer-grained

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