adjective
- Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.
- usage: "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
- synonyms: long
- Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.
- usage: "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
- synonyms: long
- Of relatively great height.
- usage: "a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
- synonyms: long
- Good at remembering.
- usage: "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
- synonyms: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious
- Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices.
- usage: "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
- synonyms: long
- Of speech sounds or syllables. ( of relatively long duration)
- usage: "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"
- synonyms: long
- Involving substantial risk.
- usage: "long odds"
- synonyms: long
- Planning prudently for the future.
- usage: "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
- synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted
- (adj.) ()
- synonyms: long
adverb
- For an extended time or at a distant time.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: long
- For an extended distance.
- synonyms: long
- For the most time.
- usage: "she stayed longest"
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