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Longer

adverb

1.

For more time.

noun

1.

A person with a strong desire for something. Synonyms: thirster, yearner. "A thirster after blood" , "A yearner for knowledge"

Long

adjective

(compar. longer; superl. longest)

1.

Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified. "A long boring speech" , "A long time" , "A long friendship" , "A long game" , "Long ago" , "An hour long" Antonym: short.

2.

Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified. "A long distance" , "Contained many long words" , "Ten miles long" Antonym: short.

3.

Of relatively great height. "Looked out the long French windows"

4.

Good at remembering. Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious. "Tenacious memory" Antonym: unretentive.

5.

Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices. "A long position in gold" Antonym: short.

6.

(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration. Antonym: short.

7.

Involving substantial risk.

8.

Planning prudently for the future. Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient. "Took a long view of the geopolitical issues"

9.

Having or being more than normal or necessary:. "In long supply"

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"Longer" Quotes from Famous Books

... the footpath, then timing their fall to the fall of verses. A full hour had passed since his father had gone in with Dan Crosby, the tutor, to find out for him something about the university. For a full hour he had paced up and down, waiting: but he could wait no longer. ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... seated in her dressing-room in front of her looking-glass. Three waiting maids stood around her. One held a small pot of rouge, another a box of hairpins, and the third a tall cap with bright red ribbons. The Countess had no longer the slightest pretensions to beauty, but she still preserved the habits of her youth, dressed in strict accordance with the fashion of seventy years before, and made as long and as careful a toilette as she would have done sixty years previously. Near the window, at an embroidery frame, ...

— The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations • Julian Hawthorne

... hopeless love, I haste to India's shore; For here how can I longer stay, And call thee ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... strong reactions within Russia itself, although the convulsions were largely screened from Western eyes. However, an unprecedented number of Russians fled across the Iron Curtain, seeking asylum in the West. They said gloomily they could no longer support a regime that reneged on its fair gambling losses, and protested fiercely this was not the ...

— The Golden Judge • Nathaniel Gordon

... deep insight into domestic life, and open for us the heart of man, in all the various states which he may occupy—a frequent review of proverbs should enter into our readings; and although they are no longer the ornaments of conversation, they have not ceased to be ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

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