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shorter-distance

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

Meaning of short-distance

Adjective

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

  1. Relating to movement, travel, transport, or communication covering only a relatively small spatial extent.
    • I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
    Antonyms:
    long-distance

Questions about shorter-distance

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

Words near shorter-distance in the dictionary

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

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