Synonyms of the word

long

• adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
• adj. Having great duration.
• adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
• adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
• adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
• adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
• adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
• adv. Over a great distance in space.
• adv. For a particular duration.
• adv. For a long duration.
• n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
• n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
• n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
• n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
• v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
• v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
• adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
• v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
• n. longitude.

abundant

• adj. Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
• adj. Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
• adj. (mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.

agelong

• adj. lasting throughout all time; eternal.

all-night

• adj. Lasting throughout the whole night (or most of it).

aware

• adj. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
• adj. Conscious or having knowledge of something.

bimestrial

• adj. Occurring once every two months.

daylong

• adj. Which lasts a day, or approximately so.
• adv. Throughout the day.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

drawn-out

• adj. Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.

durable

• adj. Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.
• n. (economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.

elongate

• adj. lengthened, extended.
• adj. slender.
• v. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
• v. To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its…
• v. (obsolete) To remove further off.

elongated

• adj. extensive in length.
• adj. stretched.
• adj. (of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of elongate.

endless

• adj. Having no end.
• adj. Extending indefinitely.
• adj. (obsolete) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.

eternal

• adj. Lasting forever; unending.
• adj. (philosophy) existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
• adj. (dated) Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

extendable

• adj. capable of being extended.

extended

• v. simple past tense and past participle of extend.
• adj. Longer in length or extension; elongated.
• adj. Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
• adj. Lasting longer; protracted.
• adj. Having a large scope or range; extensive.
• adj. (of a typeface) Wider than usual.

extendible

• adj. Capable of being extended.
• adj. (law) Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.

far

• adj. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) Distant.
• adj. Remote in space.
• adj. Remote in time.
• adj. Long.
• adj. More remote or longer of two.
• adj. Extreme.
• adj. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
• adj. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
• adv. Distant in space, time or degree.
• adv. To or from a great distance, time, or degree.
• adv. (with a comparative) Very much.
• n. Spelt (type of wheat).
• n. A young pig, or a litter of pigs.

farseeing

• adj. Having good eyesight; eagle-eyed.
• adj. Characterized by prudence and foresight.

farsighted

• adj. Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.
• adj. Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.

foresighted

• adj. Having foresight; foreseeing; provident.

foresightful

• adj. Having, exercising, or characterised by foresight; forward-looking; prudent.

hanker

• v. To crave, want or desire.

hourlong

• adj. which lasts an hour, or approximately so.
• adj. of or relating to an hourlong period of time.

interminable

• adj. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

lank

• adj. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
• adj. (obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
• adj. (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy).
• adj. (obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
• v. (rare) To become lank; to make lank.

lasting

• adj. Persisting for an extended period of time.
• v. present participle of last.
• n. continuance; endurance.
• n. A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes; everlasting.
• n. The act or process of shaping on a last.

lengthened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of lengthen.

lengthy

• adj. Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.

lifelong

• adj. Extending for the entire duration of life.

long-acting

• adj. (pharmacy) Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the long term.

long-lasting

• adj. Persisting or enduring for a long time.

long-lived

• adj. Having a long lifespan; surviving for a long period of time.

long-range

• adj. Capable of operating over a great distance.
• adj. Involving a great period of time.
• adj. travelling over a long distance.

long-term

• adj. Becoming evident after a relatively long time period.
• adj. Extending over a relatively long time period.

longish

• adj. Somewhat long.

longitudinal

• adj. Relating to length, or to longitude.
• adj. Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.
• adj. Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.
• adj. (sciences and social sciences, of a study) Sampling data over time rather than merely once.
• n. Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.

longsighted

• adj. Alternative spelling of long-sighted.

longstanding

• adj. Having persisted for an extended period of time.

mindful

• adj. Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
• adj. (obsolete) Inclined (to do something).

monthlong

• adj. which lasts a month, or approximately so.

nightlong

• adj. Lasting a night (i.e. the duration of one night); lasting all night.
• adv. Through the night.

oblong

• adj. Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
• adj. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.
• n. Something with an oblong shape.
• n. A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.

overnight

• adv. Throughout the night.
• adv. During a single night.
• adv. In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
• adj. Occurring between dusk and dawn.
• adj. Complete before the next morning.
• v. (intransitive) To stay overnight; to spend the night.
• v. (transitive, US) To send something for delivery the next day.
• n. Items delivered or completed overnight.
• n. An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
• n. (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

perennial

• adj. Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time.
• adj. (botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle of more than two years. Compare annual, biennial.
• adj. (figuratively) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; permanent; unceasing; never failing.
• adj. (figuratively) Enduring; lasting; timeless.
• adj. (figuratively) Recurrent; appearing or recurring again and again.
• n. A perennial plant; a plant that is active throughout the year or survives for more than two growing seasons…

polysyllabic

• adj. (of a word) Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables.
• adj. (of spoken or written language) Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables.
• n. A word having more than one syllable.

prolonged

• adj. lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of prolong.

protracted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of protract.
• adj. Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.

provident

• adj. Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

recollective

• adj. Of or pertaining to recollection.

retentive

• adj. Having power to retain.
• adj. (slang, apocope) anal-retentive.
• n. (obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.

semipermanent

• adj. Neither temporary nor entirely permanent; of indefinite duration.

sesquipedalian

• n. A long word.
• n. A person who uses long words.
• adj. (of a word or words) long; polysyllabic.
• adj. Pertaining to or given to the use of overly long words.

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

tall

• adj. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of…
• adj. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal)…
• adj. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
• adj. (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) A cup of coffee smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces.
• adj. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
• adj. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
• adj. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
• adj. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

tenacious

• adj. Clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.
• adj. Unwilling to yield or give up; dogged.
• adj. Holding together; cohesive.
• adj. Having a good memory; retentive.

time-consuming

• adj. Requiring significant amounts of time.

unsound

• adj. Not sound, particularly.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

weeklong

• adj. which lasts for a week, or approximately so.

yearlong

• adj. Lasting one year, or approximately so; of or relating to a timespan of one year.
• adj. Which lasts throughout every year; which is not seasonal.
• adv. Per year (mostly used to discuss animal farming).
• adv. Throughout every year; not seasonally.

yearn

• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
• v. (intransitive) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
• v. (transitive) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
• v. (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
• n. (nonstandard) yen; yearning.