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longer-running

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

Meaning of long-running

Adjective

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

  1. Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
    • The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.

Questions about longer-running

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

Words near longer-running in the dictionary

  1. longer-haired
  2. longer-lasting
  3. longer-lived
  4. longer-living
  5. longer-locked
  6. longer-running
  7. longer-standing
  8. longer-suffering
  9. longer-term
  10. Longerenong
  11. longeron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: longer-running (page history and authors); long-running (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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