latter

latter is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
2. adjective. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
3. adjective. Recent; modern.
4. adjective. Last; latest; final.
5. noun. the second of two or the second mentioned of two

   "Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the latter is remembered today"

6. adjective. referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)

   "in the latter case"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in latter:

artlet, rattel, rattle, talter, tartle, tatler

Common word forms

latters, latterly, latterness

Words from these letters

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