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briefer

briefer

2 3.4
Shorter in time, length, or expression
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrifər/
translation icon : más breve
  • Gallery audiences tend to look, see, experience, and move on in much briefer encounters than performance audiences.
  • much briefer
  • briefer, easier
  • additional, briefer

You say thank you when they pass the PS and you respond when they speak to you but just in briefer answers.

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Examples

  • Its statement of purpose was much briefer: the Act limited its objective to the protection of academic freedom.

    Academic text (1991)
  • This is the briefest possible sketch of what Darwin says.

  • An earlier, much briefer version of this article was published in THE NEW REPUBLIC.

    Academic text (1990)
  • All this stemmed from a love of beauty, a passion for flowers whose lives are even briefer than our own.

  • But instead, I decided to tell the SIS story in a much briefer and concise way.

  • So it's, it's more intense, it's briefer, and it does emphasize the development of absorption and flow.

  • Due to the introductory nature of this article, the suggestions for this class of tools will be much briefer.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Sara, these lucid moments are gonna get briefer and further apart.

  • Such aids now compete with the once-sovereign textbook narrative, which increasingly appears in briefer versions.

    Academic text (2005)
  • My presentation was much briefer than I initially planned, focusing only on the key points.

Antonyms

109 3.5

Lasting a long time and making people bored

1.0

For more time than something or someone else

How Brief

briefer
2 3.4
brief
587 2.0
lengthy
109 3.5

Surface Forms

briefer comparative
brief positive
briefest superlative

Morphology

briefer = brief (transparent) = brief + er

Regular comparative formation: 'brief' + '-er' straightforwardly yields the comparative meaning 'more brief'.

Etymology

Briefer comes from the word brief, which goes back to Latin brevis meaning 'short', so briefer simply means 'shorter' in time, length, or expression.