long
long is a 4-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, adverb, preposition, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
- superlative. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.
- superlative. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
- superlative. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- superlative. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
- superlative. Far-reaching; extensive.
- superlative. Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.
- noun. A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- noun. A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
- noun. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.
- adverb. To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.
- adverb. To a great extent in time; during a long time.
- adverb. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
- adverb. Through the whole extent or duration.
- adverb. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?
- preposition. By means of; by the fault of; because of.
- adjective. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.
- adjective. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.
- verb. desire strongly or persistently
- adjective. having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
"in long supply"
- adjective. primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
"a long road"
"a long distance"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
"the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"
- adjective. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
"is long on coffee"
"a long position in gold"
- adjective. planning prudently for the future
"large goals that required farsighted policies"
"took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
- adjective. good at remembering
"a retentive mind"
"tenacious memory"
- adjective. involving substantial risk
"long odds"
- adjective. of relatively great height- Sherwood Anderson
"a race of long gaunt men"
"looked out the long French windows"
- adverb. for an extended time or at a distant time
"a promotion long overdue"
"something long hoped for"
- adverb. for an extended distance
Synonyms
hanker, yearn, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient, recollective, retentive, tenacious
Common word forms
longs, longed, longer, longes, longly, longest, longful, longing, longness
Words from these letters
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