long

  • (r) for an extended time or at a distant time
    • 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
  • (a) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
    • a long life
    • a long boring speech
    • a long time
    • a long friendship
    • a long game
    • long ago
    • an hour long
  • (a) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
    • a long road
    • a long distance
    • contained many long words
    • ten miles long
  • (r) for an extended distance
  • (s) of relatively great height
    • "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson
    • looked out the long French windows
  • (a) good at remembering
    • a retentive mind
    • tenacious memory
    recollective, retentive, tenacious,
  • (a) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
    • is long on coffee
    • a long position in gold
  • (a) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
    • the English vowel sounds in "bate", "beat", "bite", "boat", "boot" are long
  • (s) involving substantial risk
    • long odds
  • (s) planning prudently for the future
    • large goals that required farsighted policies
    • took a long view of the geopolitical issues
    foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, farseeing, farsighted, longsighted,
  • (s) having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
    • in long supply

Verbs

Synonyms

hanker yearn recollective retentive tenacious foresighted foresightful prospicient farseeing farsighted longsighted

Antonyms

short forgetful unretentive

See also

mindful aware

Words of close approximity

lone
lob log loo lop lot low lox
load loaf loam loan lobe loch lock loco lode Lodz Loeb loft loge logo logy loin loir Loki loll Lolo Lome lone look loom loon loop Loos loot lope Lord lore lory lose loss lost Lota loth loti lots loud lour lout love
long-acting long ago long-ago longan longanberry longanimity longanimous long-armed longar palm Long Beach longbeard long-beard long beech fern long-billed marsh wren longboat long-bodied long bone longbow longbowman long-branched longcase clock long chain long-chain long-chain molecule long-clawed prawn long-dated long distance long-distance long-distance call long-distance runner long division long dozen long-eared bat long-eared owl longed-for longer longest longevity long-faced long-familiar Longfellow longfin mako long-fin tunny long fly long-haired longhand long-handled long-handled spade long haul long-head coneflower long-headed longheaded thimbleweed longhorn long-horned beetle long-horned grasshopper long horse long hundred long hundredweight longicorn longicorn beetle longing longingly long iron longish Long Island Long Island Sound longitude longitudinal longitudinally long-jawed long johns long jump long-lasting longleaf pine long-legged longlegs long-legs long-life long-lived long measure long moss long-neck clam longness long pants long pepper long pillow long plane long-play long-playing long-range longroot long run long-run long saphenous vein long-shanked longshoreman longshot long shot longsighted longsightedness