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shortest-acting

shortest-acting is the superlative 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 shortest-acting

What is shortest-acting the superlative form of?
Shortest-acting is the superlative form of short-acting.

Words near shortest-acting in the dictionary

  1. Shortess
  2. shortest
  3. shortest haul
  4. shortest remaining time
  5. shortest remaining times
  6. shortest-acting
  7. shortest-distance
  8. shortest-grain
  9. shortest-grained
  10. shortest-haired
  11. shortest-haul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortest-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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