långfattad

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Swedish

Etymology

By surface analysis, lång (“long”) +‎ fattad (“grasp, comprahend”). Made as a humorous antonym to kortfattad (“brief, terse, concise”); by surface analysis, kort (“short”) +‎ fattad (“grasp, comprahend”).

Adjective

långfattad (comparative mer långfattad, superlative mest långfattad)

  1. (humorous, colloquial) not terse or concise; lengthy, elaborated, detailed
    • 2006 November, Mattias Åkerberg, “Svenskans mest missförstådda ord [Swedish's most misunderstood word]”, in Please Copy Me:
      Först och främst: vad är superlativ? Kortfattat: den mest kraftfulla komparationsformen. Långfattat: ett adjektiv (till exempel röd) kan kompareras i tre grader (röd, rödare, rödast). De tre graderna kallas för positiv (röd), komparativ (rödare) och superlativ (rödast).
      First and foremost: what is the superlative? In short: the most powerful form of comparison. In long: an adjective (for example, red) can be compared in three degrees (red, redder, reddest). These three degrees are called positive (red), comparative (redder), and superlative (reddest).
    Synonym: utförlig
    Antonym: kortfattad

Declension

Inflection of långfattad
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular långfattad — —
neuter singular långfattat — —
plural långfattade — —
masculine plural2 långfattade — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 långfattade — —
all långfattade — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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