Dictionary entry details
• LONG (adjective)
Meaning:
Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
Context examples:
a long life / a long boring speech / a long time / a long friendship / a long game / long ago / an hour long
Similar:
long-life ((of perishable goods) treated to stay fresh longer than usual)
longitudinal (over an extended time)
long-range (involving an extended span of time)
long-run; long-term; semipermanent (relating to or extending over a relatively long time)
longstanding (having existed for a long time)
monthlong (last through a month)
all-night; nightlong; overnight (lasting, open, or operating through the whole night)
perennial (lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal)
time-consuming (of a task that takes time and patience)
seven-day; weeklong (lasting through a week)
yearlong (lasting through a year)
longish (somewhat long)
long-dated (of a gilt-edged security; having more than 15 years to run before redemption)
agelong (lasting through all time)
bimestrial (two months long; lasting two months)
daylong (lasting through an entire day)
drawn-out; extended; lengthy; prolonged; protracted (relatively long in duration; tediously protracted)
durable; lasting; long-lasting; long-lived (existing for a long time)
eight-day (lasting for eight days)
endless; eternal; interminable (tiresomely long; seemingly without end)
hourlong (lasting for an hour)
lifelong; womb-to-tomb (continuing through life)
long-acting (active over a long period of time)
Attribute:
duration; length (continuance in time)
Antonym:
short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)
Meaning:
Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
Context examples:
a long road / a long distance / contained many long words / ten miles long
Similar:
stretch (having an elongated seating area)
polysyllabic; sesquipedalian ((of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables)
oblong (deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction)
long-wool; long-wooled ((of sheep) having relatively long wool)
long-staple (having relatively long fibers)
long-snouted (having a snout that is longer than average)
long-range (suitable for or reaching long distances)
long-handled; pole-handled (having a long handle)
lank (long and thin and often limp)
far (being of a considerable distance or length)
extendable; extendible (capable of being lengthened)
elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged (drawn out or made longer spatially)
elongate; elongated (having notably more length than width; being long and slender)
Attribute:
length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest horizontal dimension of something that is fixed in place)
Antonym:
short ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length)
Meaning:
Of relatively great height
Context examples:
a race of long gaunt men / looked out the long French windows
Similar:
tall (great in vertical dimension; high in stature)
Meaning:
Good at remembering
Synonyms:
tenacious; retentive; recollective; long
Context examples:
a retentive mind / tenacious memory
Also:
aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)
Meaning:
Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
Context examples:
is long on coffee / a long position in gold
Domain category:
finance (the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets)
Antonym:
short (not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices)
Meaning:
(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
Context example:
the English vowel sounds in 'bate', 'beat', 'bite', 'boat', 'boot' are long
Domain category:
phonetics (the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis)
Antonym:
short (of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration)
Meaning:
Involving substantial risk
Context example:
long odds
Similar:
unsound (not sound financially)
Meaning:
Planning prudently for the future
Synonyms:
prospicient; foresightful; foresighted; farsighted; longsighted; farseeing; long
Context examples:
large goals that required farsighted policies / took a long view of the geopolitical issues
Similar:
provident (providing carefully for the future)
Meaning:
Having or being more than normal or necessary:
Context examples:
long on brains / in long supply
Similar:
abundant (present in great quantity)
• LONG (verb)
Meaning:
Desire strongly or persistently
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
hanker; long; yearn
Hypernyms (to "long" is one way to...):
desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "long"):
ache; languish; pine; yearn; yen (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
They long to move
• LONG (adverb)
Meaning:
For an extended time or at a distant time
Context examples:
a promotion long overdue / something long hoped for / his name has long been forgotten / talked all night long / how long will you be gone? / arrived long before he was expected / it is long after your bedtime
Meaning:
For an extended distance
