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shorter-acting

shorter-acting is the comparative form of short-acting.

Meaning of short-acting

Adjective

short-acting (comparative shorter-acting, superlative shortest-acting)

  1. Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term.
    • Short-acting insulin is maximally effective for one to three hours.
    Antonyms:
    long-acting

Questions about shorter-acting

What is shorter-acting the comparative form of?
Shorter-acting is the comparative form of short-acting.

Words near shorter-acting in the dictionary

  1. shortens
  2. shortens down
  3. shortens up
  4. shorter
  5. shorter haul
  6. shorter-acting
  7. shorter-distance
  8. shorter-grain
  9. shorter-grained
  10. shorter-haired
  11. shorter-haul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shorter-acting (page history and authors); short-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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