långfattad

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

   Synonym: utförlig

   Antonym: kortfattad

   • 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).

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.